{"id":93014,"date":"2024-09-27T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93014"},"modified":"2024-09-27T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:33:19","slug":"reflections-on-democrats-and-republicans-agree-teacher-prep-needs-to-change-but-how-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/09\/27\/reflections-on-democrats-and-republicans-agree-teacher-prep-needs-to-change-but-how-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Democrats and Republicans Agree Teacher Prep Needs to Change. But How?&#8221; [Stanford]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/democrats-and-republicans-agree-teacher-prep-needs-to-change-but-how\/2024\/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats and Republicans Agree Teacher Prep Needs to Change. But How?<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from edweek.org by Libby Stanford<br \/>\n<em>The programs have been designed \u201cessentially to mass-produce identical educators,\u201d a teachers college dean told lawmakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The core problem, witnesses at the hearing said, is that teacher-preparation programs treat all teachers\u2014and, by extension, students\u2014the same, asking teachers to be \u201ceverything to everybody.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe current model of teaching where one teacher works individually with a group of learners in a classroom\u2014or a small box inside of a larger box that we call school\u2014promotes unrealistic expectations by assuming individual teachers working in isolation can meet the needs of all students,\u201d said Greg Mendez, the principal of Skyline High School in Mesa, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;ve long thought teacher education programs could and should evolve (that&#8217;s why I have a &#8220;student teacher\/teacher education&#8221; category on this blog). For example, they should inform their future teachers about the science of learning and how to leverage edtech\/emerging technologies into their teaching methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But regardless of what happens in our teacher prep programs, the issues about the current PreK-12 learning ecosystem remain &#8212; and THOSE things are what we need to address. Or we will continue to see teachers leave the profession.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Are we straight-jacketing our teachers and administrators by having them give so many standardized tests and then having to teach to those tests? (We should require our legislators to teach in a classroom before they can draft any kind of legislation.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Do teachers have the joy they used to have? The flexibility they used to have? Do students?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Do students have choice and voice?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Also, I highlighted the above excerpt because we can&#8217;t expect a teacher to do it all. They can&#8217;t be everything to everybody. It&#8217;s a recipe for burnout and depression. There are too many agendas coming at them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>We need to empower our current teachers and listen very carefully to the changes that <em>they<\/em> recommend. We should also listen very carefully to what our STUDENTS are recommending as well!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans Agree Teacher Prep Needs to Change. But How? &#8212; from edweek.org by Libby Stanford The programs have been designed \u201cessentially to mass-produce identical educators,\u201d a teachers college dean told lawmakers The core problem, witnesses at the hearing said, is that teacher-preparation programs treat all teachers\u2014and, by extension, students\u2014the same, asking teachers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,86,127,433,324,72,343,347,848,141,177,533,71,419,46,7,838,285,199,560,279,436,855,480,310,20,393,66,89,206,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-change","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-curriculum","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-emotion","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-expectations","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-legislation-legislatures","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-trends","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93020,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93014\/revisions\/93020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}