This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
2 Bosses
This week I would like you to think about CTE program issues.
If you could change just ONE THING about your program, what would it be, and WHY? (You may want to post about curriculum, student selection, pathway, industry certification, local school administration, etc.)
The one thing I would change about my program is the fact that I have 2 bosses. CTAE have a set of requirements for me and then the principal at my school has another set. What CTAE requires isn't a hassle to complete, what they require together with what my principal and my individual school requires can be a complete nightmare at times. TKES, lesson plans, SST, focus walks, planning period professional developments, multiple indexes (too many to name), data, benchmarks, surveys, morning duty, lunch duty, book study groups, meetings, end-of-pathway assessments, etc. It can all be so overwhelming at times. I would prefer if all CTAE teachers were at their own facility and the student were bused to us. Our labs with expensive equipment would be protected and we would have one boss to give us direction instead of 2 and sometimes conflicting instructions. I don't want to be completely separate but it would make my classroom and teaching career flow a lot better.
I am feeling you Courtney. I think if we were allowed to just teach (using the strategies we have learned at NTI), our programs would soar. The stress of everything that is added to our day is a nightmare. I think one day I would like to write curriculum for my program. I feel as though sometimes whoever wrote it has never been to Cosmetology school (and I could be right)!. I would like it if teachers in the CTAE program had more input as to how our programs are designed. We are there to drive the workforce and if we are so bogged down in things that don't make a difference, I find myself wondering WHY am I doing this. That scares be because I have been teaching less than a year. I think if they hire us, they should be confident in our ability of our content area. The big talk is differentiation, yet they want all of us to fit into a cookie cutter mold.
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