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.
lol
Your taxed speech at work to destroy your speech entirely and spread terrorism
These people are wasting their lives.
yale has significantly dropped in yield and desirebility since the public SJW foolishness.
We can expect the Free Market to gradually sort things out. Evergreen has a 99% acceptance rate. This suggests it’s the absolute bottom of the barrel of applicants who attend.
Evergreen State College in the evil moral tradition of Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Fidel, etc. ...
And these monsters think that’s a good thing.
BLOAT
Buy Lots Of Ammo & Train.
The only fix is mass liquidation.
I truly hate to say it but it’s inevitable.
It’s them or us. Horrible but nessacary.
School boards would need to incorporate this into their curriculum. There must be some demand if Evergreen State is offering advanced brain washing degrees for K-12 teachers.
“It’s not clear how Evergreen defines “teacher positions,” nor what percentage of 2016 graduates has found full-time employment with benefits”
Do they get benefits if they work as rent-a-protest types?
In other words, the curriculum teaches indoctrinees to look for and exploit even the smallest of differences to drive wedges between people. It's all about fomenting distrust and destroying the social constructs that enable civilization to exist.
And this is an education program, where they are presumably learning to teach grade school? I sincerely hope that the employment rate of graduates is nonexistent. I wouldn't want these advocates of violence and dictatorship anywhere near my children.
They are no longer fit to be called colleges. They are training grounds for the communist revolution, or so they think. In reality, they are not preparing kids for anything else than to be a teacher of this crap, who prepares kids to become teachers of this crap, etc. It has no connection with real life. It doesn’t teach any skill that would help in finding a job.
Another liberal madrassa.
Heartbreaking to hear such an honest answer.
But we’ve got 7 year old girls getting male prosthetics so they can use boy’s bathrooms.
We’ve got freak and fairies and child rapists and all kinds of miscreants at every level of government, entertainment and education.
I HATE to sound morally superior because I was a terrible sinner, and am still FAR from sin free, but God will not be mocked.
The sins being committed i could never DREAM of inflicting on our youth, in my worst twisted nightmare.
I hope the females all get to spend several months as sex slaves to gangs of young muzzie rapeugees. Come to think of it, the rapeugees will probably accept male students as well.
I think muzzie rape gangs are pretty multi-cultural, as rape gangs go.
I wish it were otherwise, and pray it doesn’t come to that but I think it’s only a matter of time.
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