I am one of those "patient veteran teachers who offered me sage advice as old-fashioned and out of touch" albeit now retired. It is frustrating for me, now a school board member, see a myriad of problems with classroom management. I can offer solutions, but no one wants to hear. One thing I know...a teacher should never stop learning or looking for better more effective ways of reaching the children we teach.
Well duh. This isn’t exactly earth shattering. Meanwhile thousands of kids continue to get duped by those in the education establishment. The talking time is over. Put some action behind your words and that might be news worthy.
Similar story here, and I agree with everything you say except....there is also a kind of "educational industrial complex" I call it, a symbiotic and highly profitable relationship between the publishing & testing companies, the state departments of education and the schools of ed. The bureaucrats and academics churn out reams of "social justice" inspired garbage and sustain useless, highly paid consultant and desk jobs, well away from classrooms and kids. Actual teaching is for losers in their minds if not their lofty words, and it pays shit in comparison. As always, money is the root of the evil. Thank you so much for your work to confront this many-headed monster!
Teacher prep programs vary widely, schools in urban environments place student teachers in urban schools, oddly the high tuition "elite" programs are far from reality. Mentoring is a skill, I co-chaired a Mentoring Committee: senior teachers complained the mentees didn't listen and the mentees complained senior teachers thought they were ordering around their own kids. Residency Programs are the most successful, and more expensive, however, worthwhile, retention rates are high
I am one of those "patient veteran teachers who offered me sage advice as old-fashioned and out of touch" albeit now retired. It is frustrating for me, now a school board member, see a myriad of problems with classroom management. I can offer solutions, but no one wants to hear. One thing I know...a teacher should never stop learning or looking for better more effective ways of reaching the children we teach.
Well duh. This isn’t exactly earth shattering. Meanwhile thousands of kids continue to get duped by those in the education establishment. The talking time is over. Put some action behind your words and that might be news worthy.
helpful, good to know as a mom
Similar story here, and I agree with everything you say except....there is also a kind of "educational industrial complex" I call it, a symbiotic and highly profitable relationship between the publishing & testing companies, the state departments of education and the schools of ed. The bureaucrats and academics churn out reams of "social justice" inspired garbage and sustain useless, highly paid consultant and desk jobs, well away from classrooms and kids. Actual teaching is for losers in their minds if not their lofty words, and it pays shit in comparison. As always, money is the root of the evil. Thank you so much for your work to confront this many-headed monster!
I hear you!
Teacher prep programs vary widely, schools in urban environments place student teachers in urban schools, oddly the high tuition "elite" programs are far from reality. Mentoring is a skill, I co-chaired a Mentoring Committee: senior teachers complained the mentees didn't listen and the mentees complained senior teachers thought they were ordering around their own kids. Residency Programs are the most successful, and more expensive, however, worthwhile, retention rates are high