He talked about we needed better academic training for prospective teachers. He thought the teachers's should have better teacher programs. I agree with this, because teachers do need the better programs that can teach them how to do their job at the best of their ability. The next thing he said was that we need a better approach to recruiting teachers. He thought that not to letting everyone that graduated with an education degree become a teacher. Rather then, only let top third education graduates become teachers. I don't agree with this. I believe everyone learns at thier own pace and cold be great teacher's at some point.
The next thing he had a problem with was the way teachers are rewarded. He thought you should reward teachers on their performance and not their seniority. I think this would work better.I think teachers need to be rewarded when they are doing a great job. I feel this will make teacher's want to teach better and have there clas more motivated to learn if they feedl they can benifit from it.
The next thing he had a problem with was how seniority created a distraction in schools. He thought you should get rid of the teacher's that were not getting the job done right besides getting rid of the new teachers. I agree with this to a point. Teachers who are not doing their job the way they should be, should be let go. It shouldn't matter how long they have been teaching.
Patrick,
ReplyDeleteYou explain your perspective on each problem well. I also think that we have some of the same views about this article by Klein. In my opinion, this article was interesting to read and to hear Klein's solutions was interesting as well. Your opinions were well stated. Good job.