Not exact matches
EW: In addition to completing three portfolio entries that demonstrate their
actual teaching practices, candidates for national certification must complete an entry documenting their work with students» families, the community, their colleagues, and the
teaching profession as a whole.
Rhee and Fornia make a valid point that not all teachers enter the
profession at age 25, and their paper also includes the graph below showing the
actual distribution of California teachers by the age at which they began
teaching.
This latest «Race to the Top» agenda is just the latest in a long line of fits and starts imposed by armchair warriors outside of the
profession who think they know better than those of us who perform the
actual job of
teaching.
Just as important is support for universities to recruit, incentivize, and develop the strongest undergraduates to enter the
teaching profession and be properly trained how to
teach through residency programs where future teachers are under the tutelage of master teachers in
actual classrooms.
Furthermore, the shortage of
actual capital is intensified by the lack of social capital attributed to the
teaching profession (Dove, 2004).
The fact is that law schools, while great at
teaching legal theory and issue spotting, systematically fail to equip students to convert these skills into an
actual profession.