Post a commentAnd why is the reason those young, talented teachers leave? Money and safety. This is isn't brain surgery. Talented teachers will stay when they are treated well, protected and paid close to what other districts pay. Until then, one and done.
I agree with you...the problem in the Philly schools is the quality of the teachers...not the quality of the students...
The students are really budding Einsteins or Bill Gates wanna be's...but because they have mediocre teachers...that is why they act out...
We need more Philip B's to lead us in the 21st century...
Now, I understand...the pathologies in the district are due to the mediocre teachers...the students are not to blame...nor their dead-beat parents...its the teachers...
wow...I have seen the light...
This letter is bases on the one school in Phila. This is not the whole district picture. Phil- are you a "Teach for America" teacher? If not, does that make you dull and stupid -or- is it that you think you're a great teacher because you've been doing this for 40 years?
No matter how good or committed a teacher is, unless we create an educational system that acknowledges that kids learn in different ways and at different speeds, we'll continue to hemmorage dropouts and our future along with them.
dim-5, judging from your comments, you must be a Philadelphia Public School graduate.
Nothing like glittering generalities to answer complex questions.
this article forgot to mention if they are black or white teachers. this is important to know so the public can see if arlenes racist agenda of hiring black teachers for black students at taxpayers expense is working
Ow! What a bunch of not-on-target posts! The letter writer was saying that people who studied in an actual discipline, rather than "secondary education" can be better teachers because they KNOW what they are teaching and the students may respect that. I say that is true and I wish those with degrees in the discipline itself did not have to jump through all the certification classes, in order to be permitted to teach.
The content of this letter is definitely true. Knowing how to teach well is mostly understanding your subject well. Graduating with a "general" idea of a main subject might be alright when you're teaching elementary and middle school, but we need people who know their stuff to be teaching at the high school level. Regardless of what percentage of kids are being hooligans and disrupting classes, there are still MANY kids throughout the district, even in the worst schools, that have limitless potential. And kids like us deserve more than teachers who are taught to "teach" more than the subject that we'll be learning.
Instead of a worn out ex TV star teaching in class in Philadelphia; let us get the Superintendent and her loyalists to teach solo in a troubled school for a year or two. No special protection and only support that is offered everyone else. And I mean now. Most if not all administrtaors have not taught in a high risk/needs classroom on their own in many, many years. Of course Dr. Ackerman can do this job after she "fixes" the school system in her alloted 5 years. Her contract should demand it.
I'm truly curious about one significant statistic missing in this back-and-forth... How many TFAs actually teach the subject they received their undergrad degree in? Based on my knowledge... very few.
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