Teaching as a profession has a lot of people that think they can do it or how you can improve. I'm going to leave the internet experts alone today and focus on the subset of managers and educators that write, but don't teach.
In a previous school I had a manger who was very well read on educational theories. He always had new ideas he wanted us to try and because he spent a lot of time reading he believed that this would make himself quite capable of teaching a classroom of students. It took one teacher needing a day off and him subbing the class for it to come painfully obvious that though he knew a lot of theories he couldn't implement them.
As teachers we are constantly judged by our managers / principals on our teaching. How can we improve. The honest truth is unless they are in the classroom they know less than you. How many times have you had a manger tell you some technique to improve your class and you have been thinking "how about you come show me". You know that if they were to step into your class and try to teach it would quickly fall apart.
We should all accept constructive criticism and suggestions on areas to improve. Techniques to try and new teaching philosophies to look into, but unless your manager is ready to step in and show their actual teaching abilities in a live classroom for a few days their advice is just that advice.
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