Reply to A case against alternative certification or content only teacher training

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "A case against alternative certification or content only teacher training"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it, in this day and age, [b]schools don't have class lessons that are ready to go for teachers?[/b] Why is everyone starting from scratch?[/quote]

Because teaching isn't an automated factory-production process?[/quote]

As a former teacher, I totally agree.

I taught for years--guess what?  I never regurgitated lesson plans.  Every year, I made new plans.  I have not taught in several years and I understand that it is more regimented now than when I taught.

My normal operation:  Make goals for the year using the guidance from the school system.  For my daily lesson plans, I usually stayed very late on a Thursday and made lesson plans for the following week.  I would assemble the materials needed--as much as possible.

But, frequently, other things interfered, or the kids needed more practice or review and I would need to push lessons to the following week.  Sometimes, a lesson would go more quickly than anticipated and I would move forward.

As for the pedagogy, I do think that elementary teaching (especially primary grades) requires more classroom management, organization, etc.  You need to create a physical environment that helps the kids to learn, as well as plan how you will teach.  
[b]FWIW, many college professors will teach education students that if they have good lesson plans, they will not have discipline problems. [/b] (Please remember, that the people telling the prospective teachers this "lesson" have been out of classrooms for years--except to tell others how to teach.

Good lesson plans are extremely important--I knew teachers who said they did not need them, that they "knew' what they were going to do without writing it down.  I needed them--it was important to me to see that I was moving forward with the kids.  Sure, I had an outline in my head--but, when you walk in class first thing in the a.m.-it sure is nice to have a reminder in front of you of what you had planned for that day.  (plus, I loved to check it off)

I could never have used someone else's plans on a daily basis.  Teaching is not a script.
[/quote]

Ugh, can't believe anyone actually believes this to be true![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics