Not exact matches
«He understands that teaching is one of the hardest professions, and has thought deeply about
how to support
professionalism among
teachers.»
We flatter
teachers»
professionalism by telling them they alone can best determine what will engage and enlighten the children before them, but the price of that flattery is that we make their jobs impossible to do effectively, forcing them to spend fruitless hours on Google and Pinterest hoping to find materials that a well - run and coherent system would provide to them — along with training on
how to implement it effectively.
Teachers work largely in isolation, and professionalism is defined as the freedom for individual teachers to determine what they teach, how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for
Teachers work largely in isolation, and
professionalism is defined as the freedom for individual
teachers to determine what they teach, how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for
teachers to determine what they teach,
how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior
teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for
teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for example.
I have learned just
how much the current trends in education reform devalue the
professionalism of teaching and the potential of
teachers to impact students» lives.
Professionalism includes appropriate dress,
how they carry themselves inside and outside the classroom, the way that they address students,
teachers, and parents, etc..
And finally, will they see
how you hold up students for their learning and hold
teachers to high standards of
professionalism, as was the case with Principal Kevin?
But that gives you a sense of
how committed we are in the budget to the issues of improving and elevating
teachers» careers and
teacher professionalism.
So
how do we create
teacher support in ways that
teachers and secondary schools, particularly those working in high need schools, and with traditionally underserved students, have high levels of
teacher professionalism that promotes their knowledge, that provides opportunities to participate in the peer networks that we've heard so much about and also creates opportunities for them to have this autonomy?
And then also are there any recommendations that you would make to the viewers out there who are trying to think through
how to redesign or improve what they're currently doing to support
teacher professionalism?
How will you work to return
professionalism and autonomy to
teachers?
Corporate reformers advocate flexibility, freedom from burdensome school boards — but what this really means is the freedom to fire faculty and staff, to strip
teachers of job protections, deprive them of
professionalism and the autonomy to teach as they best know
how — and to disable their unions, for charters allow no unions.
This is not a dig at
teacher professionalism; it just speaks to the reality of
how a human being whose livelihood is impacted by such a poorly - designed system will be incentivized to view students and a school.
A case study on
how teachers in isolated communities can collaborate across vast distances also appears in a 2017 report on collaborative
professionalism by Andy Hargreaves and Michael O'Connor.