ones that can tie their own shoes ?
That would mean replacing practically every single teacher in the inner cities. Most of them can’t even speak proper English.
Need stronger union to have better teachers......right?
Skilled teachers don’t want to work in hellhole inner-city schools with no student discipline and where they run the daily risk of getting shivved in the halls.
“skilled” = fully indoctrinated
“skilled” used to mean well educated in the subject matter and able to successfully convey the material to the students.
But, that was back when the subject matter dealt with reality.
1. We are going to find and reward the superior teachers with more pay.
2. The bonus program turns into chaos.
3. Henceforth all teachers will receive the superior teacher bonus because it is all so subjective.
Repeat every ten years or so under a different title.
All teachers would have to have graduated from Hillsdale.
John Stossel did a piece on education a few months ago, talking about how we could dramatically improve education just be making it easier to fire the worst 5% of teachers. That bad teachers are such a drag on learning that getting rid of the bottom 5% or 10% currently protected by tenure would dramatically improve scores - without any extra money.
Makes sence, given that the Obamadork most ceertainly didn’t have any skilled teachers in his sordid background.
FUBO.
There is no human on earth to whom you are not inferior.
One of the things I think is often overlooked in “building a better teacher” is the quality of education programs at many universities. Too many of them, IMHO, are overly focused on process and theory and not enough on scholarship. As a result, you get more than a few who are “teaching from the book”, and whose knowledge of the material in question is basically one chapter ahead of the class.
I’m not saying all teachers are like that. I have several excellent teachers in my family, and I taught survey-level classes at a local university for several years. I also know some fine educators in my local school system. I’m just saying there needs to be more emphasis on academic rigor in many of these programs. Higher admission standards and ‘wash out’ courses would also help weed out the burnouts and unmotivated. And I’ve definitely seen more than a few of those in the schools, too.
Better teachers are just like better people in all facets of life and business. They want to go where the conditions and pay are better, not into hellholes where angels fear to tread, and risks outweigh the pay.
“Obama highlights push for better skilled teachers”
Democrat solution: raise tax rates again to pay existing teachers more money, and their skill levels will automatically improve with better pay.
As an Engineering student I was required to read and discuss a psychology textbook. Two things stood out in my mind from that book - and one of them was,It is doubtful if any learning occurs without motivation.Thus, motivating the children to learn is the sine qua non of education. Fail to do that, and the children will not learn. Succeed at that, and - late or soon - the child will learn.But the motivation comes from culture - and a child from a culture which does not provide that motivation must have it inculcated in school before anything else gets learned. To that extent, “teaching” is out of the teacher’s hands.
But to blame a culture which correlates with a race is to invite a propaganda war against yourself.