A Hoosier teacher wonders why Indiana bothered to set new standards requiring all potential teachers to major in their field of study and minor in education:
I'm mystified as to why this is necessary. I teach high school in Indianapolis
and it has been years since I was called upon to teach anything but basic skills. Any college graduate with a passing grade in freshman English can easily teach the rudimentary skills required for mastery in an English class. It has been a long time since I've had to call on my extensive knowledge of literature or composition in order to teach a lesson. In fact, I rarely have to think or plan at all, since the district sends me lessons and prepared scripts that I am required to use. I could teach "Mary Had a Little Lamb'' as long as it hit one or more of the Indiana standards.
No literature or special composition skills, just the rudimentary basics all laod out in a must-follow lesson plan. How sad, and how scary to think that might be more common than many of us would like to believe.
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Thanks to the NEA and the Dept. Of Education. You can't acheive a 100% dependency on the government unless you train kids early on to rely on the state, not their parents and family.
Certainly appears to be working doesn't it?
Tim:
In a word...
BINGO!
(you get it)
It's working about AS GOOD as bailing out the TITANIC with a colander.
;)
How sad, that a "professional teacher" would look at her job in this way! My own contacts with a limited number of FWCS "professional teachers" leads me to state that they may feel this way - BUT THEY DO NOT ACT THIS WAY! And for this, we in Fort Wayne need to be thankful!!