Where the h who-is-at #$ have they been? Or am I missing something. I know my 5
semester training had an extensive practicum / student teaching
experience each semester. I found it a needed materiality to the empty
idealism that often occurs in university walls, but it isn't new by any
means - is it?
How about this for a reform, come up with a mechanism in which a teacher
does not have to spend 25% of his / her income in order to teach his /
her students.
The philanthropic - sounds like a giant alien insect - can keep their
money if you ask me.
Swwet smell of money
reminds me of a Langstan Hughes poem
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load
Or does it just explode?
Mike Cole wrote:
>"The Carnegie Corporation of New York has added its voice - and some
>serious dollars - to the chorus of groups calling for reform of teacher
>education. In a paper released in September, "Teaching as a Clinical
>Profession: A New Challenge for Education," the philanthropic foundation
>recommends that teacher education programs be modeled more along the lines
>of medical training programs, with an emphasis on clinical experience and
>in-school residencies. The paper is intended to provoke broader discussion
>about a $40 million initiative the foundation has announced in April,
>called "Teachers for a New Era." The goal of the initiative is to create a
>change in the public's thinking about how we train and support the kind of
>teachers public schools and society needs."
>
>"Thus far, Carnegie has announced that four institutions are already on
>board: The University of California at Northridge, Bank Street College of
>Education, Michigan State University, and the University of Virginia."
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>"Faculty in the arts and sciences need to be more involved in contributing
>to the preparation of teachers. The institutions have to put resources
>into creating better and more interactions with teachers, schools and
>districts. The profession needs to better define what teachers need to
>know and be able to do when they go to work in a classroom. And new
>teachers need to benefit from better-designed clinical experiences,
>induction programs and ongoing mentoring."
>
>To read the report, go to: www.carnegie.org/pdf/teachered.pdf
>or www.aft/org/higher_ed/downloadable/k16report.pdf
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