Posted on 06/25/2010 8:01:52 AM PDT by bs9021
Self-Esteem Bottoms Out
Malcolm A. Kline, June 25, 2010
While everyone from Middle American parents to the U. S. Secretary of Education are expressing a lack of confidence in the ability of ed schools to deliver qualified teachers to public schools, the deans of those institutions have no such angst. “Universities say we’re going to protect this because it is something we can do better than anyone else,” Dr. Sharon P. Robinson, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) said at a lunch on June 18, 2010.
“Deans and department chairs were much more likely to believe that their students were prepared to teach than either principals or teachers believed,” a 2006 MetLife survey found.
“Teachers express less confidence in themselves than their deans do,” Dr. Robinson said in reaction to the Met Life study.
Robinson formerly worked with the National Education Association (NEA) teacher’s union. The event was sponsored by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Willis Hawley of the University of Maryland elaborated on Dr. Robinson’s comments. Teachers express more confidence in themselves when training than when practicing, he averred.
Hawley is Professor Emeritus of Education and Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Diverse Students Initiative. He claims he has done a study of 20 education schools and found few similarities among them.
“I will not be an advocate for teacher education,” Dr. Robinson said. “I will be a champion for what teacher training can be.”
Yet and still, she asserts that “It has gotten better.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
The proof of the product is in the improved learning performance of children. Otherwise, all is just talk.
Yep, if your self-esteem is in your bottom, then get it out!
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