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Re: TeacherInsight - Thoughts & Advice
Posted by mark on 6/30/09

    On 6/29/09, Marina wrote:

    > I totally agree with this. I am a content-centered teacher. While I do
    > care about the kids, my main goal in the classroom is to teach them
    > content.

    The trouble is, most higher level administrators don't really know what
    "student-centered" is, but it sounds good at face value, being focused on the
    student and all, so they claim their district is "student centered." They
    adopt a mission statement, and adopt things like TI. My district did this.

    Guess what? My district is anything but student centered. Most
    administrators can't define what it is, and if you press them for an answer,
    you'll get something like "it means you care about students."

    I'm an administrator, and just got a promotion, but I know what the concept is
    and know we are NOT student centered as a district. We're moving away from
    TI, and other programs like that, because we think they don't work. No, they
    work. They ID student-centered educators, and the student-centered philosophy
    does work in some settings, but the trouble is that student-centered teachers
    don't like teaching in our authoritarian, top-down, content-focused district.
    So, all these new teachers we've hired with high SC scores from TI end up
    quitting or getting fired, and my bosses are scratching their heads wondering
    why we have had such high new teacher turnover the last few years...

    I am so frustrated by the way we're headed in American education.
    > On the one hand we have NCLB which is all about content, and on the other
    > hand we're wasting time by teaching through fluffy student-centered
    > strategies.

     
     

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