The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom
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The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom
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#2The original post is over here:
http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom...
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#3Good read. I remember a few dedicated influential teachers. Unfortunately, they are but a few and surrounded in my memory by a large number that were simply going through the motions.
That was 20 years ago, and it sounds like maybe things have not improved. Quality teachers are just about one of the most important things a society can have. Not sure why we haven't institutionally figured that out.
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#5I REALLY wish teaching was as prestigious as say, being a doctor, or investment banker. I read a very interesting [1] book on this and it really just opened my eyes regarding the mediocrity of teaching (not quality per say, but as a profession, which eventually leads to poor education).
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Kids-World-They-That/dp/14516...
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#6More like "Waynesboro Rotary Club Teacher of the Year"?
Looks like this is blogspam with a linkbaity title. Original was "The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom": http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom...
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#7Good read. I remember a few dedicated influential teachers. Unfortunately, they are but a few and surrounded in my memory by a large number that were simply going through the motions. That was 20 years ago, and it sounds like maybe things have not improved. Quality teachers are just about one of the most important things a society can have. Not sure why we haven't institutionally figured that out.
I've had great teachers and I've had terrible teachers. I don't think any teacher sets out to be one of the bad teachers, I think the amount of things teachers go through (low pay, unnecessary hoops to jump through, etc) just grinds a person down.
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#8That's sad. I would be a teacher if I could get paid $75/hr...
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#9The sad and infuriating thing is that good teachers leaving public service is precisely what conservative groups strive for, in their "starve the beast" agendas. As more quality staff leave, they [conservative groups] can claim greater and greater failures in the public system and siphon more tax dollars into private voucher schools.
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#10Good read. I remember a few dedicated influential teachers. Unfortunately, they are but a few and surrounded in my memory by a large number that were simply going through the motions. That was 20 years ago, and it sounds like maybe things have not improved. Quality teachers are just about one of the most important things a society can have. Not sure why we haven't institutionally figured that out.
I can say that at least in Virginia, SOL scores are everything. The same scores are used to rate both teacher effectiveness and student success, which I feel is unfair to both parties. It encourages teachers to focus on the standardized test objective of the week rather than encouraging an environment of discovery and learning, and students to gamify the system rather than engage and invest themselves in their education.