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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Long winded PP, your untrained teacher might be an exception or perhaps your district or school is an exception.

In fcps the teachers are generally very strong, well trained, expereinced teachers OR very well mentored new teachers.[/quote]

Nah, most have a few years experience and it's actual teaching experience where they learn how to teach.

College and grad school teaches theory but like all theory it has to be turned into practice.  So each school district uses certain packaged curriculum that then requires training for the teachers to use effectively.  No need to believe me on this - google is your friend. Every publisher provides training on their product both initial and on-going.

It would be impossible for colleges/grad schools to train future teachers on these products. It's up to the individual schools and districts to provide that training to a teacher to implement the product.  So a teacher can easily implement the product poorly for a couple of years before he/she really has enough experience to know and understand how to use it and use it well.[/quote]

This is not our fcps experience.

Each grade has a team leader who is a well estabkished teacher. They pull activities from many sources and don't just follow a canned curriculum. We have had two new teachers (1st & 2nd year) and what you describe (regurgitating a canned curriculum with no understanding of how to properly imolemet it) is not typical for the two fcps elementay schools my kids have attended.

What district are you basing your experience on?  One of the Maryland districts?[/quote]

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