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Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?
Posted by Quarterlife Gal on 5/08/08
On 5/08/08, Been there wrote:
> It was early in the second week of school. I returned to the classroom
> after lunch to find the CT and another teacher angry about a new school
> policy. My CT, who is the building rep for the union, was fit to be tied.
>
>
> So I asked what they were mad about (mistake #1) and my CT angrily states
> that the high school teachers now have to include "behavioral objectives"
> on their lesson plans. She stressed the second syllable of behavioral as
> though she thought this new directive was the stupidest thing imaginable.
> I remembered in my education classes that Bloom's taxonomy is now
> considered to be outdated since it's based on behavioralism and not
> constructivism, the new fashionable theory of learning, so I mentioned
> something about that. I was assuming she was angry because she disagreed
> with behavioral theory. (Big Mistake)
>
> After I spoke, it's like a light went on for her and she instantly become
> silent and started moving around papers on her desk signaling the
> discussion was over. The other teacher, who was a nice person, said "Oh,
> I love Bloom's taxonomy. Maybe this is just about that."
>
> My CT just pursed her lips and was in a foul mood for the rest of the day.
>
> When she fired me shewrote that I was knowledge deficient in 3rd grade
> math (yet I received a 180 out of a possible 200 on the Praxis) and on my
> last day she said she thought I could teach college. Go figure.
>
> Looking back I realize she didn't know what a behavioral objective is and
> she thought it had to do with classroom management, i.e. good behavior in
> the classroom. My statement about Bloom's Taxomomy exposed her ignorance
> in front of another teacher, and that was a mortal sin.
>
> My advice is to keep your mouth shut as much as possible. Yikes, it seems so senseless doesn't it? Can't people just understand one
another without getting heated on a topic. Where is the understanding?
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/17/08, by Thesis.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/18/08, by BC.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/18/08, by Never Again.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/18/08, by Thesis.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/18/08, by Did you ever think....
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/18/08, by Did you ever think....
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/19/08, by thesis.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/19/08, by fb.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/23/08, by young teacher.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/23/08, by me.
- Re: Did not listen to suggestions, advice, comments, 4/23/08, by Way too overconfident for an ST nfm.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 4/24/08, by Jennifer.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/05/08, by now a veteran teacher.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/07/08, by Just Don't Get It! Clueless.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/08/08, by Been there.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/08/08, by Quarterlife Gal.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/08/08, by Still hate my CT.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/09/08, by Rodeo.
- Re: Whats the worst thing that a student teacher has done?, 5/12/08, by Longtimer.
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