Posted on 06/15/2017 10:38:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
100 percent employment for grads in ‘teaching positions’
Aspiring teachers who yearn to push social justice principles onto their students have until June 25 to apply for Evergreen State College’s Master in Teaching (MIT) program.
The two-year program is based at Evergreen’s campus in Tacoma, Washington, half an hour from the recent racial controversies at its main campus in Olympia. MIT promises to prepare the next generation of K-12 educators not only to do their jobs as teachers, but to incorporate social justice into every aspect of their curriculum.
The program’s philosophy is simple: One of the paramount goals of education is to create citizens who “care about equity and justice for all beings,” according to a statement by J. Patrick Naughton, the program director, in the program catalog.
How well its graduates are doing is an open question. Evergreen’s most recent statistics on employment for its graduates do not describe how robust their employment is.
‘Consciously act on’ racial differences
Successful applicants into the program will spend two years immersed in Evergreen’s interdisciplinary teacher education framework, the first tenet of which is “Social Justice and Multicultural Theory and Practice,” according to the catalog.
Because of Evergreen’s historical commitment to diversity, teachers are asked to critically engage and actively promote a multiplicity of perspectives and ideas.
“Rather than erasing or marginalizing differences, [teachers] examine and consciously act on differences such as ethnicity, race, class, gender, gender expression, culture, religion, language, ability, and sexual identities,” the catalog boasts.
“We analyze schooling in relation to the structures of power and privilege and what it means to work and learn in a democracy operating within a state-supported, advanced capitalist economy” and “critique practices that exclude particular groups from equitable participation in society.”
The program vows to expose teachers to their own “multicultural encapsulation” (lack of understanding about multiculturalism) in order to supercharge their ability to develop “critical consciousness” and “equity pedagogies” for students.
In other words: If teachers aren’t woke when they start the program, they certainly will be by the end of it.
Social justice in every discipline
While curriculum heavy on social justice may be best suited for a progressive social studies class, Evergreen’s cohort of aspiring teachers can garner teaching endorsements in subjects including mathematics, physics, science, biology, history and earth and space science.
Would-be teachers in many fields are required to take typical social justice classes at Evergreen. For example, history teachers are required to take at least one class in U.S. women’s history, and another in U.S. multicultural history, while theater arts teachers are required to take at least four credits in the “social cultural and historical contexts” of arts.
The syllabus for the first year of the MIT program shows that teachers will learn how “traditional literacies of reading, writing, and qualitative reasoning” relate to “political oppression and power,” and how teachers can draw upon community resources to connect curricula to “students’ lived experiences.”
Evergreen boasts of its successful graduates of MIT program, praising them for winning “Teacher of the Year” awards and for their “commitment to social justice in the classroom.”
But while the program certainly seems successful in churning out social justice warriors, the extent to which their graduates are earning gainful employment is unclear.
Evergreen claims that 100 percent of the class of 2016 had found “teacher positions” as of last July, but college spokespeople and Maggie Foran, MIT associate director, did not return multiple calls and emails from The College Fix asking for clarification.
It’s not clear how Evergreen defines “teacher positions,” nor what percentage of 2016 graduates has found full-time employment with benefits. A handful of older graduates of the program also did not respond to Fix queries.
Libs own the school system K-PhD.
Evergreen grads should be ignored by all institutions of our society, educational and otherwise.
All you have to do is follow the kids home and look behind the door. These parents have to be misguided to send them to this school. The makings of another lost generation. . . maybe the last generation.
The value of a degree from this fine institution rapidly approaches zero. This will be a story some years from now in that people who graduate from this school are going to find themselves completely barred from the workforce.
Yeah that’s not gonna happen and unless we elect Trump dictator for life this may be a brief respite like The Great One was.
I am THRILLED he won and he can start to turn the ship around.
But even Rome had good years and rulers towards its end.
We need more permanent changes. In the schools K through college, in Hollywood, in MSM.
And I’ve no clue how we go about that.
“This will be a story some years from now in that people who graduate from this school are going to find themselves completely barred from the workforce”.
People like that must have a very difficult time dealing with other people, and society in general. When they get out in the real world they must need a “safe space” and there are none to be found. They are useless, pitiful. and despicable creatures.
Evergreen State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Any school that doesn’t pledge to be politically neutral and behave that way, should have their federal funds taken away. And if they are in a red state, their state funds.
End Federal involvement of any sort in education is a start but then, to begin to improve in the states the teachers colleges have to be entirely shut down and re formulated. No new hires permitted from alumna of the closed teachers’ colleges. Weed out the practicing teachers who cannot teach real academic topics, like math and reading and civics and geography, etc. Thee are plenty of old schoolbooks with real education in them that can be resurrected and used by teachers able to teach from them. History may have to end at WWII for a couple of years. If the states and the citizenry do not regain control of public education very soon, a hundred Trumps and Reagans and Coolidges will not rescue the Republic. Perhaps a third of the population can even exist in freedom now.
The graduates of this program, can’t teach math, English, penmanship, factual history, geography, nor anything else, but they sure come out knowing just HOW to make kids aware of their “victimhood”, “oppressor” status ! :-(
Beings? So they plan to expand their indoctrination techniques beyond humans.
at this point I think graduating from Greendale is a reason not to be hired.
Send your kids here and we’ll turn them into drooling cultural Marxist maniacs like nobody can!
in other words, it’s a 2yr program on how to be an anglophobe
They can always work for the government.
It’s what they are trained for.
Choose one.
Churning out little Castros, Maos, Stalins and general Marxist Democrats to poison the minds of young children. I call that “child molesting” and “child endangerment”.
Evergreen college may consider talking to customers while holding a part time job at Starbucks to be a “teaching” position.
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