Post by Chris_Wendt on Jul 25, 2014 12:08:56 GMT -5
Paraphrasing the famous line from "Cool Hand Luke", I think that what we have here is a failure to articulate.
Newsday carried a story today about a disturbingly large percentage of newly minted teaches not prepared (by teaching colleges) to teach the Common Core Curriculum. This could turn out to actually be a good thing, if the bar is actually being raised for becoming a teacher, and those with less talent or ability (for teaching under the emerging CCC) are being weeded-out in greater numbers than previously had been the case. But it could be yet another reflection of the stunningly piss-poor job the NY Education Department has done to prepare...students...existing teachers...and (now) teaching colleges for the advent and implementation of the Common Core Curriculum. Then again, it could be that the entire CCC (or substantially all of it) is really a complete crock of crap?
Of course, the NYSED has done a yeoman's job of disgracing themselves and eroding their own credibility such that politicians, especially those elected to state offices, have been sensitized to any issue critical to or of the Common Core, to the point those politicos cannot read about any such issue without immediately sponsoring a new wave of legislation aimed at fixing or amending the Common Core as it is being implemented in this state. To wit: their response to the paucity of new, qualified teachers graduating from the state's teaching colleges is the predictable one: delay using the Common Core to evaluate new teachers. New teachers, of course, means PROBATIONARY teachers seeking tenure. If the Wantagh School District is prohibited by law from evaluating PROBATIONARY teachers on their performance teaching under the Common Core Curriculum, then 3-, 4-, even 5-years out, the Wantagh Board of Education may be forced to grant tenure to 3 flocks unqualified teachers. That eventuality would be...DISASTROUS for the future quality of education dispensed here, in Wantagh.
But then again, it may simply be that the entire CCC (or substantially all of it) is really a complete crock of crap?
Regards,
Chris Wendt
Newsday carried a story today about a disturbingly large percentage of newly minted teaches not prepared (by teaching colleges) to teach the Common Core Curriculum. This could turn out to actually be a good thing, if the bar is actually being raised for becoming a teacher, and those with less talent or ability (for teaching under the emerging CCC) are being weeded-out in greater numbers than previously had been the case. But it could be yet another reflection of the stunningly piss-poor job the NY Education Department has done to prepare...students...existing teachers...and (now) teaching colleges for the advent and implementation of the Common Core Curriculum. Then again, it could be that the entire CCC (or substantially all of it) is really a complete crock of crap?
Of course, the NYSED has done a yeoman's job of disgracing themselves and eroding their own credibility such that politicians, especially those elected to state offices, have been sensitized to any issue critical to or of the Common Core, to the point those politicos cannot read about any such issue without immediately sponsoring a new wave of legislation aimed at fixing or amending the Common Core as it is being implemented in this state. To wit: their response to the paucity of new, qualified teachers graduating from the state's teaching colleges is the predictable one: delay using the Common Core to evaluate new teachers. New teachers, of course, means PROBATIONARY teachers seeking tenure. If the Wantagh School District is prohibited by law from evaluating PROBATIONARY teachers on their performance teaching under the Common Core Curriculum, then 3-, 4-, even 5-years out, the Wantagh Board of Education may be forced to grant tenure to 3 flocks unqualified teachers. That eventuality would be...DISASTROUS for the future quality of education dispensed here, in Wantagh.
But then again, it may simply be that the entire CCC (or substantially all of it) is really a complete crock of crap?
Regards,
Chris Wendt