Chapter 5 Education Nation

It was brought to the author's attention that teachers are heavily informaed of what they will be doing int the feild once they graduate school with the dgree of being a teacher. They have to take almost as much schooling as a doctor or arcitect, however they don't have the resources those two ooccupations have. teachers take a broad and huge variety of classes, physcology, diversity, education, as well as all the basics, math, science, langaue arts, and speech. The degree seems never ending, and although the teachers were exttremly educated, they were runnign into problems once the hit the job market. They we're realizing that alot of teachers had learned in theory, but not in actual classroom, situations and settings. These teachers, alhtough very smart we're ultimatly unprepared for the job to maintain a classroom. In theory they had been taught how to run a classroom, but not how to actually "teach" a classroom. Thus, came Co-teaching, which they talk about alot int heis chapter. I couldn't agree more then teachers are just getting thrown into situations they are unprepared for and uneducated about. This is why most colleges or universities hav changed the ciriculm to at least one year on the job training or co- teaching. The school actually follows your teaching career for up to 3 years after you have your degree and graduate. Talk about pressure... In all reality however it makes sense even teachers still need to learn, its not just the students we are teaching in the classrooms , but also ourselves, constanly changing and bettering ourselves for the future. What we would change, how we would do things differntly, how to make a bigger impact on the students. After all teachers are constanly getting assessed and it's all about accountability these days so I guess you could say teachers never stop learning it's a full time degree and a full time job that is under paid and ultimatly underappreciated.