Sadly, the best and brightest often bail towards the end - I did, as did a number of the people in my cohort of 16. In fact, I only know of two members of my cohort who went on to teach in the same discipline that we trained for.
Since I was already in the profession I saw the writing on the wall, and wasn't coy about my intention to go another direction when I got out. Others got out within their first year, and either went into another subject area or got out completely. I can't speak for other school systems, but ours has a minimum requirement of three years of (satisfactory) classroom experience before you can even be screened for an administrative position. That means you can't sandbag and move on - you have to do a good job in the trenches before you can begin to lead. Dan On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Larry wrote: > My Daughter (God bless her!) has homeschooled our grandson from 1st Grade > to 7th so far - she was planning to go into teaching when in college until > she was given the opportunity to assist a teacher locally - she saw the Hell > teachers must endure and changed course..... Which is a shame because often > the best and brightest will see the problems teachers have and decide it's > not worth it... > > As I mentioned elsewhere - requiring administrators to teach *in* a > classroom at least 2 years out of every 5 employment years and they'd see the > problems they cause with their "new teaching" paradigms ... > > LarryT > 91 300D > > -----Original Message----- From: Mountain Man > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:11 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton > > DanP wrote: >> I'm not sure I have a problem with state control of textbooks, but there >> should be some sort of governing body that defines curriculum, or people are >> going to be all over the place in terms of what is being taught. Someone has >> to set the standards. >> > > Centralizing control and standards are good to a point. > Central control and standards essentially deny and eliminate concepts > of ingenuity or invention. I don't think you want that to happen. > While you have a fine system humming along in your system today, you > have few, if any, mechanisms to allow innovation or invention to make > the system hum along even better. We easily lose sight of objectives. > Education. Education requires vested interests which we have lost. > The parent interested in education does that education themselves - > with the benefit of innovative methods and inventiveness in getting > the material across to their kids in whom they need to cultivate a > vested interest in education. When we shove these tasks off to > others, we lose control, interest, innovation, objectives. There is a > lot to be said for homeschools. We homeschooled k12 7 kids all of > whom are adults today, in varying sucess in the market. > mao > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
