--- title: Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers description: Rethinking how we teach teachers, the importance of President Obama's first U.S. mosque visit and more. canonical: https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-03T17:01:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:28.770Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 3, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 3, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**We need to rewrite the textbook on how we teach teachers.**](http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/we-need-to-rewrite-the-textbook-on-how-to-teach) By Simon Oxenham in the Big Think **2\.** [**This is why President Obama’s first visit to a U.S. mosque is so important.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zainab-chaudry/why-president-obamas-mosque-visit%5Fb%5F9136166.html) By Zainab Chaudry in Huffington Post **3\.** [**Datacenters love cold, undisturbed places. Why not the bottom of the ocean?**](http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/02/microsoft-cloud-ocean-project-natick/459318/) By Julian Spector in CityLab **4\.** [**The next plane you take could have a hydrogen fuel cell.**](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/02/aviation/easyjet-hybrid-plane-hydrogen-fuel-cell/index.html) By Daisy Carrington at CNN **5\.** [**We need an infrastructure election.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-01/the-infrastructure-election) By Barry Ritholtz in Bloomberg View  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/"},"headline":"Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers","datePublished":"2016-02-03T17:01:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:28.770Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/","keywords":["Innovation","Infrastructure","Data topic","Islam","Airplane","Teachers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4205948/rethink-how-teach-teachers/","name":"Why We Need to Rethink How We Teach Teachers"}}]}] ```