{"id":87080,"date":"2023-05-22T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=87080"},"modified":"2023-05-22T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:05:01","slug":"teacher-shortages-some-ways-being-used-to-address-this-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/05\/22\/teacher-shortages-some-ways-being-used-to-address-this-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher shortages: Some ways being used to address this issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/18\/1176806768\/mentors-in-alaska-work-with-new-teachers-in-the-hope-that-theyll-stay-on-the-job\"><strong>Being a new teacher is hard. Having a good mentor can help<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from npr.org by Cory Turner<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>[Besides this article&#8217;s focus on <strong>mentorship<\/strong>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In March, I reported\u00a0<a title=\"a pair of stories from Jackson, Miss.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/22\/1160371732\/teacher-shortages-mississippi-education-job-fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click.nl.npr.org\/?qs%3D1f66e79af900425917c17516758921a159e27760afdce12486bdb571c768fe0b8b7c949fa94ca9a64ba4d4321b8aafb98a8983bc4e5ea3e7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684842609238000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1IWgWxb_gGRruPimlIraqS\">a pair of stories from Jackson, Miss.<\/a>, where the school district is <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>paying for unlicensed classroom aides to go back to school and get their master\u2019s degrees.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In April, I told\u00a0<a title=\"the story of a remarkable idea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/25\/1160372607\/teacher-shortage-solution-middle-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click.nl.npr.org\/?qs%3D1f66e79af9004259f8aca291a56b62286c67e5e7118b0dc5cdc7703c1723c22b6f23a8e9bf9a1e029e3b688bef9ca5a3bc64bf1342f90794&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684842609238000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1jETLAS5DsPovj4c6TyjCb\">the story of a remarkable idea<\/a>: A new high school in San Antonio dedicated entirely to<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> training high-schoolers in the art and science of good teaching.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I would add a few more items:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Significantly reduce the impact of legislators on K-12. If they do vote on something that would impact schools, each legislator that votes on such legislation must first spend at least ___ week(s) observing in some of the schools that would be impacted before even starting to draft legislation and\/or debate on the topic(s).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Instead, turn over more control and power to the students, teachers, K12 administrators, parents, and school boards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Provide more choice, more control as each student can handle it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Stop the one-size fits all system. Instead use AI-based systems to provide more personalized learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Develop more hybrid programs &#8212; but this time I&#8217;m talking mixing what we&#8217;ve known as public education with homeschooling and smaller learning pods. Let&#8217;s expand what&#8217;s included when we discuss &#8220;learning spaces.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Strive for a love of learning &#8212; vs. competition and developing gameplayers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Support makerspaces, entrepreneurship, and experiments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Speaking of experiments, I would recommend developing more bold experiments <em>outside of <\/em>the current systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along the lines of potential solutions\/visions, see:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelbhorn.substack.com\/p\/why-system-transformation-is-likely\"><strong>Why \u2018System Transformation\u2019 Is Likely A Pipe Dream<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from michaelbhorn.substack.com by Michael Horn<br \/>\n<em>But I&#8217;m for System Replacement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Foremost among them is this: Despite all the fancy models and white papers around what are all the levers to pull in order to transform a system, system transformation almost never happens by changing the fundamental tenets of the system itself. Instead, it comes from replacing the system with a brand-new system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To start to understand why, consider the complicated system in which public schools find themselves. As\u00a0Thomas Arnett explained, they are one part of a vast value network of federal, state, and local regulators, voters and taxpayers, parents and students, teachers, administrators, unions, curriculum providers, school vendors, public infrastructure, higher education institutions, and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>New ideas, programs, or entities that don\u2019t fit into these processes, priorities, and cost structures are simply not plug-compatible into that value network. They consequently get rejected, tossed to the fringe, or altered to meet the needs of the existing actors in the value network.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a new teacher is hard. Having a good mentor can help &#8212; from npr.org by Cory Turner Excerpt: [Besides this article&#8217;s focus on mentorship] In March, I reported\u00a0a pair of stories from Jackson, Miss., where the school district is paying for unlicensed classroom aides to go back to school and get their master\u2019s degrees. 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