Happy Friday Classmates,
Today I have the privilege of subbing in an EBT class of students that don't want to do anything but clown around, curse and stay off task. I have a parapro with me who knows everything about the students, however I am not teaching anything. It is more like babysitting. It really does take a "Special" person to teach Special Ed. I am grateful for the experience of being in here to know that this is one area that I don't want to teach in.
Yesterday was just the opposite with college prep history classes where students didn't want to do much, but there were about 10 kids that really valued their education. On top of that I was in a class with another teacher that obviously hasn't been through NTI so his classroom management was totally weak. I am convinced that the more I teach and witness the behavior of students and teachers, that we as a society are losing the battle to properly educate kids across America. Educators don't make enough for the hard work that we do and students devalue education. It seems that students today don't want to be in school, think that they can be disrespectful to teachers. I concur with the recent statements by Bill Cosby on Oprah while discussing the new book "Come On People" that talks about how education is no longer a priority for America and that we are failing our youth by not parenting them properly. This book is a wake call for America and not just for African-Americans because this week I've witnessed all races failing out and just being low level students that don't care. We really need to take this to the Capital steps and try to get more done to increase the educational values in America and make people more responsible for the injustices being done in our schools.
On another note, I am really looking forward to seeing all of you in class tomorrow.
Never Give Up!
Showing posts with label Problems in Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Problems in Education. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
You're not going to believe this
You're not going to believe this
I guess this is a blog and a comment. After reading Disposition for Teaching/Dangthatboycancook’s blog, I reflected on my reasons for teaching. At this point I’m not even thinking about summer, I can’t wait until President’s Day. Even though I was unemployed or shall I say underemployed at the time I accepted this position I had thought about going into teaching for a while. My reasons were to make a difference. This is one of the reasons I chose to work for the APS because it was the system I came up in.
I remember reading an article during my undergrad career that discussed the where education was heading and what could be done to improve it. The basic gist of the article was that the brightest students were not going into education but were majoring in fields such as engineering, business, and medicine thus leaving the sub par students as the educators of our future. The article stated that we needed to figure out how to attract our brighter population into education. I realized the truth in the article from the moment I read it. At my university (which happened to start off as a teaching college) when ever a student flunked out of their original major, the first place they would head to would be the College of Education whose GPA requirements were only a 2.5. I’m looking at the people I went to school with and thinking I would not want them to teach my child yet they were the one that were ending up as teachers.
With that being said when I went into teaching it was for the right reasons. I felt I could make a difference; I was tired of hearing how bad the education system in Georgia was when I am a product of both the public school system and the university system. Unfortunately it takes more than a few good teachers. The students have to take some responsibility and ownership too. The apathy of this generation is ridiculous. When we were in school, we may not have wanted to be there, we may have cut class or acted up, but at least we did our work. Even the real problem students realized the value of an education. The students today don’t care.
Why was everyone in uproar when Oprah decided to spend her 41 million overseas? Can you argue with her reasoning? When she visited schools here in America and asked the students what would make things better and how they could use money they requested ipods and tennis shoes while in Africa they wanted to the money to purchase uniforms just so they could attend school. Our students’ values are mixed up. They have been given so much and don’t realize how good they have it.
In conclusion, we don’t the reasons why people get into teaching but with the state of education now can we really blame them for taking solace in the fact that summer is near. If that is what helps them make it through the day then so be it.
I guess this is a blog and a comment. After reading Disposition for Teaching/Dangthatboycancook’s blog, I reflected on my reasons for teaching. At this point I’m not even thinking about summer, I can’t wait until President’s Day. Even though I was unemployed or shall I say underemployed at the time I accepted this position I had thought about going into teaching for a while. My reasons were to make a difference. This is one of the reasons I chose to work for the APS because it was the system I came up in.
I remember reading an article during my undergrad career that discussed the where education was heading and what could be done to improve it. The basic gist of the article was that the brightest students were not going into education but were majoring in fields such as engineering, business, and medicine thus leaving the sub par students as the educators of our future. The article stated that we needed to figure out how to attract our brighter population into education. I realized the truth in the article from the moment I read it. At my university (which happened to start off as a teaching college) when ever a student flunked out of their original major, the first place they would head to would be the College of Education whose GPA requirements were only a 2.5. I’m looking at the people I went to school with and thinking I would not want them to teach my child yet they were the one that were ending up as teachers.
With that being said when I went into teaching it was for the right reasons. I felt I could make a difference; I was tired of hearing how bad the education system in Georgia was when I am a product of both the public school system and the university system. Unfortunately it takes more than a few good teachers. The students have to take some responsibility and ownership too. The apathy of this generation is ridiculous. When we were in school, we may not have wanted to be there, we may have cut class or acted up, but at least we did our work. Even the real problem students realized the value of an education. The students today don’t care.
Why was everyone in uproar when Oprah decided to spend her 41 million overseas? Can you argue with her reasoning? When she visited schools here in America and asked the students what would make things better and how they could use money they requested ipods and tennis shoes while in Africa they wanted to the money to purchase uniforms just so they could attend school. Our students’ values are mixed up. They have been given so much and don’t realize how good they have it.
In conclusion, we don’t the reasons why people get into teaching but with the state of education now can we really blame them for taking solace in the fact that summer is near. If that is what helps them make it through the day then so be it.
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