Every year bright, energetic
young teachers enter their classrooms armed with lesson plans and a sincere desire to improve the lives of their students.
Most
young teachers enter teaching for all the right reasons: they want to change the world, and they want to have a positive effect on children.
With increasing numbers of
younger teachers entering the profession and in the absence of any case law, the question «Who is going to drive the school minibus in the future?»
I became an administrator so I could guide
young teachers entering our profession and help them get through much of the bureaucratic red tape that gets in their way.
That said, on the flip side, many
young teachers entering the profession seem to be in a rush to get into leadership positions and almost can't wait to move onto the next step of their career ladder.
But what has gone under - reported is that
young teachers entering the field are carrying a disproportionate amount of the load.
Not exact matches
I worry that publicly reporting
teachers» effectiveness will be another reason among many why talented
young people will avoid
entering the teaching profession or leave just as they are becoming effective
teachers.
The
young teachers aren't slackers, she explains, but a radically different kind of union member from those who
entered the ranks in the 1960s, the 1970s, or even the 1980s.
A 3rd - grade class closely reads the poem «Two Lives Are Yours,» and, with skillful guidance from the
teacher, a
young boy is able to discern the poem's meaning: «reading lets you escape reality and
enter new worlds.»
Teachers and parents
enter child play effectively by adopting the mindset of the
young and asking, «What is it like to be a child?»
In addition, we know that
young men face social pressures to conform to particular masculine ideals — because there are few male
teachers teaching, it's not really perceived as something that's masculine to do and
young men might be more likely to choose career paths like, say, becoming a personal trainer or
entering business.
The West Virginia state legislature has passed an «innovation zone» bill that allows McDowell County to participate in a
teacher - in - residence program with a local university, allowing promising
young talent to
enter the teaching workforce.
The initial motivation for
young white
teachers entering urban schools appears to be the same as the people I interviewed, that is, they are concerned about racism as a moral issue and they want to make a difference.
Massive
teacher layoffs have led to concerns that
young people will shy away from
entering the suddenly less - than - secure profession.
She hopes that when her
youngest son, who is only 17 - months old, is ready for pre-K, he'll
enter a different kind of school, one filled with
teachers who inspire and motivate students to succeed — quality
teachers for all kids.
Tapping into that visceral connection early, and then nurturing and supporting
young teacher candidates until they are fully trained to
enter — and remain in — the workforce, might be a key to diversifying and expanding the number of candidates who
enter the
teacher pipeline.
Like most experienced
teachers, I have counseled many
young people to not
enter the teaching profession, and helped a number of
younger teachers find either a better district or better state to work in.
Being a
teacher also means being part visionary - here's some food for thought at the start of a new year Each fall, millions of
young people
enter...
While state and national leaders in education have repeatedly noted the importance of
teacher quality — while also misrepresenting that importance [emphasis added]-- increasing standards - based teaching, high - stakes testing and value - added methods of
teacher evaluation, along with the dismantling unions, have de-professionalized teaching and discouraged
young people from
entering the field.
Others — especially high - achieving
young people — may never even consider teaching because of the profession's relatively flat salary trajectory and because the professional work environment does not match that of other career paths.69
Teachers have less flexibility in their schedules compared with other professions, sometimes even struggling to find time to use the restroom.70 They also struggle to find time to collaborate with peers and often have to pay for their own supplies.71 To ensure that high - quality teacher candidates enter the profession and that excellent teachers stay in the profession, all educators should be trained and compensated like the professionals t
Teachers have less flexibility in their schedules compared with other professions, sometimes even struggling to find time to use the restroom.70 They also struggle to find time to collaborate with peers and often have to pay for their own supplies.71 To ensure that high - quality
teacher candidates
enter the profession and that excellent
teachers stay in the profession, all educators should be trained and compensated like the professionals t
teachers stay in the profession, all educators should be trained and compensated like the professionals they are.
I have not even started on what the system is doing to our
young people and forcing
teachers to teach in a certain way - from the moment they
enter the education system our children are been squashed into a box, filled with facts, tested, tested, tested and stamped with a number / level / expectation / progress point and we as
teachers are allowing it - we do not want to, we want to teach.
Around the time of the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983,
teacher quality and preparation
entered the spotlight of policy talk and have since received significant political attention (Lewis &
Young, 2013).
Preschool
teachers educate and care for children
younger than age 5 who have not yet
entered kindergarten.
With so many (too many)
entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers;
teachers; office workers; in general, the
young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they have absolutely no hands - on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities» on the internet.