Dear graduates of 2010, deans, administrators, faculty, staff, parents, friends, other students, acquaintances, and that guy in the back who mistook this for a free food event, I asked my middle
school history teacher what I should say today.
Not exact matches
Farrington's research background, plus her
history as a
teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about
what happens to students when they're at
school.
In a stalemate that could ultimately test the Taylor Law, Buffalo
teachers, working under
what could be the longest expired
school contract in state
history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediation.
In
what could be a test of the Taylor Law, Buffalo
teachers, working under
what could be the longest expired
school contract in state
history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediation.
We have students in this state who are, through no fault of the
teachers, but just because of the
history in that
school, or the training and preparation of those
teachers, or the lack of resources or whatever it may be — those
teachers are teaching material that is one year, two years below (in content sophistication)
what it needs to be.
Steve and Ann explore
what our
schools are teaching today about citizenship by interviewing and surveying those
teachers most directly charged with educating and shaping America's new citizens — high
school teachers of
history and social studies in both public and private
schools.
Mr. Brock was one of several
school psychologists who were asked to help children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., after a gunman opened fire on Jan. 17, 1989, killing 5 children and wounding 29 other students and one teacher, in what was at the time one of the worst instances of school violence in the nation's hi
school psychologists who were asked to help children at Cleveland Elementary
School in Stockton, Calif., after a gunman opened fire on Jan. 17, 1989, killing 5 children and wounding 29 other students and one teacher, in what was at the time one of the worst instances of school violence in the nation's hi
School in Stockton, Calif., after a gunman opened fire on Jan. 17, 1989, killing 5 children and wounding 29 other students and one
teacher, in
what was at the time one of the worst instances of
school violence in the nation's hi
school violence in the nation's
history.
Throughout the
history school curriculum from William the Conquer to present day,
history teachers have asked their students
what makes a great leader in both peace time and war?
So we have
schools that purchase books like Everyday Math, which eschews honest arithmetic in favor of fuzzy math and the overuse of calculators;
Teachers College Writers Workshop, which downplays grammar but obsesses about the «process» of writing (a process that's not based in any research); and all manner of reading programs that fixate on «skills» while ignoring literature,
history, science, and everything else that might make reading an enjoyable and enlightening experience (and that might actually prepare kids to understand
what will be taught to them downstream).
In
what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (
Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors»
history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read
what the new world of education — as opposed to
schooling — may look like in the future.
To my surprise, though many «old
school»
history teachers have lately chosen retirement over delivering the watered down, devoid - of - hard - facts, PowerPoint - driven lectures that are the hallmarks of
what some educators call «socialist studies departments,» U.S. student performance has stayed the same.
History doesn't show that accountability turns around
schools; at some point, someone must go into the
schools, talk to the
teachers, talk to the students, and observe classes to see
what's needed.
She was previously a high
school teacher in Washington, DC, where she was inspired by students» political interest and activism and wondered
what teachers could do to build stronger connections between
history / social studies classes and students» political lives.
High
School History Teacher resumes are not
what they used to be.