On 6/19/08, mrsd wrote:
It's very difficult to
> hire teachers who speak incorrectly, especially when
> teaching reading/language arts.
My only comment here is that many people get nervous during
interviews, especially when they know th chips are so stacked
against them in the job market. I really, really like getting
involved with our student teachers in my department and relish
the chance to work with them. Its basically a semester long
interview, but we drop the pretense and business suits and get
down to teaching, learning, and being realistic.
Supposedly there is a glut
> of English teachers out there, but I really wonder how many
> are competent teachers.
Hard to say, because most of them haven't had a job teaching yet.
> I
> don't know if it's a sad commentary on our teacher
> preparation programs or on the quality of young people
> going into teaching.
I think teacher prep programs lack the real-world element.
Many, many teacher come out of their programs like deer in
headlights and while most of them get a good dose of the
real-world in student teaching, they still cling onto the
philosophical nonsense and theory shoved down their throats.
I would rather see more teaching strategies taught and
demonstrated and real-world teaching situations explained and
demonstrated. There's a lot of pie-in-the-sky stuff taught in
college ed classes.
I had one person show me, from his portfolio, a unit plan he
designed for college-bound, gifted seniors with LD. The plan
and materials were written at 16th grade level or higher.
They were excellent, for a 2 or 3 hundred level college
course, maybe even an honors high school course... He was
applying for a 7th grade Special Ed position.
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