Sunday, July 31, 2011
Worthless staff developments
When reading the article, Drill the teacher, educate the kids, it brought me to thinking about the class that i am currently taking w/ Dr. Howe. In Ed 521, we are discussing how to create staff developments that are goign to be worthy and beneficial. The key componet to making the workshop/inservice work throughout the year, needs to be bit by bit, piece by piece. Every workshop/inservice teachers are involvled in is generally for the students. We are there to learn more and how it will benefit them. I love in the article instead of teachers coming back to reflect, just have students come to workshops so that they can learn about the technology that the inservice was trying to teach. In the class i am currently taking now, it is so eye opening at the time that is alloted among the school year to give teachers more education to help their students. As a whole, every person in my class says the same thing. It is presented but never followed up or implemented as a whole and not by bits and pieces. When will someone listen to us teachers???
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ReplyDeleteIt is funny what you say and yet so true! Teachers are really the "middle men" of education. We are sent to in-services that either do not apply to our content area, are a pointless hoop that the district must jump through, or are taught something great/frustrating and at the end of the day are left with no support and lots of questions about what we just learned. I totally hear you. It would be cool if we brought in instructors that worked directly with the students and allowed teachers to carry on the process in the school days afterward. That would be cool. It's becoming so difficult. You not only have to know the minutiae of your content, but also the ins and outs of your standards, and then also be a technology expert, comedian and tap-dancer to present it to the students all the while expecting that there will be no support other than what you can gather from various Google searches. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't have said it better myself! I guess Ghandi is right...we need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
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