I have never experienced an abusive administrator and I believe
that principals only put on teachers what the central office tells
them they have to do. My former principal even opted out(when
given a choice) of some "new things" in order to avoid putting
something new on our plate only to have the central office later
tell us we too had to implement the latest and greatest. I do
agree with the person that wrote that GA's teacher preparation
programs do need to be more rigorous in math and science. One
course in EC Mathematics isn't enough. We are teaching our
children to learn the process of computation in order to get the
correct answer. We are not teaching for understanding. I taught
my first graders math the way the TE suggested or how I was taught
with the occasional fufu project. I recently went on the NCTM
(national council for teaching mathematics) and one article's
author suggested that teacher prep programs require 9 semester
hours of mathematics. I am not against it. It may require that we
spend more time in college but maybe just maybe teachers will get
the respect they deserve for knowing what they are teaching and
knowing it well. The same goes for science. It has to be more
about memorizing processes, formulas and facts.

On 10/29/09, nbct not that big a deal wrote:
> Before NBCT's holders start bashing me, I want to say that I was a
> teacher in the classroom until last year. I think teachers are
> abused in most cases and administrators keep on putting too much
> on our plate, while they beef up the non-teaching staff to do
nothing.
> No wonder there is the us against them mentality.
>
> But NBCT is not that big of a deal and I dont think it deserves
> that supplement. We have principals and AP's who dont teach and
> yet get the NBCT supplement just because they have that
certification.
>
> Make the Georgia teaching program more rigourous..make high school
> math and science teachers take more rigourous solid classes in
> math and science rather than these fufu education classes.
>
>
>
> On 10/29/09, Cyn wrote:
>> I think the military deserves anything they can get. Keep on
>> rewarding them, I say! I think the US and GA have
>> established priorities. Unfortunately, education is not one
>> of them. Nevertheless, the military earns its money. Until
>> we see education as a matter of life and death, nothing will
>> happen. Think on this.
>>

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