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Is Our Teachers Learning?

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I am completely unshocked to hear that schools of education do a terrible job of teaching teachers:

“We don’t know how to prepare teachers,” said Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University and author of a scathing critique of teacher preparation. “We can’t decide whether it’s a craft or a profession. Do you need a lot of education as you would in a profession, or do you need a little bit and then learn on the job, like a craft? I don’t know of any other profession that’s so uncertain about how to educate their professionals.”

You don’t say.

4 thoughts on “Is Our Teachers Learning?”

  2. I am completely unshocked to hear that schools of education do a terrible job of teaching teachers

    More people would get it if people would spell the word correctly: idiocation.

  3. A 2007 McKinsey study found that 23 percent of U.S. teachers graduated in the top third of their class, while that figure was 100 percent in Singapore, Finland and other nations whose students lead the world on international exams.

    Only 23 percent of U.S. teachers graduated in the top third of their class? That’s despicable! As a mathematician I insist that at least 33.33333333% of people graduate in the top 1/3 of their class.

  4. Craft or profession? That’s an easy one; professions have professional associations, crafts have unions.

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