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Obama's changes

by LNCB

Mar 14, 2010

The headlines in the paper are all about how Obama will improve the quality of teachers and ensure all Americans get a quality education. How would you go about it? What is broken that should be fixed? How would you fix it? How should colleges change the way they prepare teachers? Will Merit Pay help?

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mo teach The more legislation is passed, the more our district crams things down teachers necks. We are not left with the freedom to teach the way we know is best for the kids. We have all but given up on history and science, and I know a lot of states don't teach the arts at all. All we seem to do now is teach to the test using scripted lessons that don't ...See More

Mar 15, 2010

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Chicago You do know that Arne Duncan is a Chicago guy. If you're concerned, I suggest taking a good, maybe hard look at what they've been doing in Chicago to see what you think. Like all things, it's mixed. I do feel think that teachers feel themselves under fire, though. The basic ideas are good, but it seems to make a good competent, thoughtful TEACHING ...See MoreYou do know that Arne Duncan is a Chicago guy. If you're concerned, I suggest taking a good, maybe hard look at what they've been doing in Chicago to see what you think. Like all things, it's mixed. I do feel think that teachers feel themselves under fire, though. The basic ideas are good, but it seems to make a good competent, thoughtful TEACHING (not just administrative) team very important. I've been in a teacher ed program for secondary science and have seen a lot of schools here - the ones who do well (besides the 'demonstration' schools who get all the money in the world thrown at them) have been able to develop school-wide curriculum and teach challenging content, without boring everyone to death. Think NSF or Benchmarks, or adapting the AP stuff with activities that are actually interesting. One tech school was doing a lab section where students designed their own, and man, those kids couldn't wait for Mr. Mean to shut up so they could get to work. Goofy labs, so what. It was theirs. Does not guarantee grade results, though. Students fail for all kinds of reasons and that's an individual, not a group response. They'll say you need those teaching skills, and I say the class size is still just too big.

On 3/15/10, mo teach wrote: > The more legislation is passed, the more our district crams > things down teachers necks. We are not left with the freedom > to teach the way we know is best for the kids. We have all > but given up on history and science, and I know a lot of > states don't teach the arts at all. All we seem to do now is > teach to the test using scripted lessons that don't work. If > we could have a little more autonomy in our classrooms I am > sure the kids would learn more. > Daniel Pink is a speaker and White House advisor. He has > given many talks about what motivates people. He shows > exactly why offering merit pay won't make us better > educators. What would help would be more parent involvement, > and less transitional students (students that attend two or > more schools each school year). > That being said, I do appreciate the fact that the White > House Administration has said that they want to bring back > Social Studies, Science and the arts. However, the > statement, "being prepared to be college bound or job ready," > can have so many different interpretations, and it sounds to > me like they might have private corporations have more of a > hand in what is being taught. I don't know how I feel about > that, because it is our job to prepare the kids for the jobs > that are out there, but I feel that is one step further > toward privitized schools.

Apr 11, 2010

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Chan Get the federal government out of the education business - particularly since it has no constitutional authority to stick its nose into education in the first place.

I don't believe there is a one-size-fits-all solution. On 3/14/10, LNCB wrote: > The headlines in the paper are all about how Obama will > improve the quality of teacher...See More

May 25, 2010

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