There is nothing cliche about the theories behind teaching methodologies. I would agree with what you say, but the problem starts at the top - the administration.
As for Richard's comment about tenure, it no longer exists in our district. Effective this coming January our teachers go on an evaluation system that determines whether or not they get raises. Existing teachers who have tenure can keep if it they choose to, but if they do their salaries are effectively capped. From what I hear the better part of the faculty has decided to give up tenure. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 22, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my kid's english teacher can barely read. abby has to explain what words > mean to her as she has a very limited vocabulary. this teacher is bad > tempered and loses student's tests, then gives them a zero as a grade when > she can't find a test. the school administration bends over backwards to > protect her against any criticism. > > i think the problems are A LOT bigger that whether she is a contructivist > or a behaviorist. in fact, i think talk of which a teacher is really > distracts from much of what the problem really is. cliches just cover for > a lack of core competence in many public school teachers > > >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: >> >> I would also add that Contructivism is the flavor of the month for now. >> This is the experiential style of learning promoted by Montessori, Piaget >> and Dewey. >> >> Just like the stock market, the pendulum will swing in the other direction >> in the future and Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner, Itard, etc.) will come back >> into vogue, no doubt. >> >> Dan >> >>> On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: >>> >>> It's by no means "touchy-feely" any more. It's all data driven. I see >> kindergarten teachers with 3" binders full of data they have collected on >> individual students. It's all about the data now. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >>>> On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Mountain Man wrote: >>>> >>>> Dieselhead wrote: >>>>> But the prior post about "the 'merkuns didn't want to know.." or >> something >>>>> to that effect is not true. FDR installed Deming to make the 'merkun >> war >>>>> production hum. >>>> >>>> Loss of Deming/SPC methods seems evident in the education arena. >> Correct? >>>> It seems that everything has turned touchy feely instead of discreet >>>> quantitative. Everything. >>>> It can all be summarized as religion. We live under totalitarian >>>> religious-industrial-complex. >>>> Don't say God. >>>> mao >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://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 >>> >>> 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 >> >> 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 > > > > -- > > > *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars* > *www.BuyEUROparts.com <http://www.BuyEUROparts.com>* > _______________________________________ > http://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 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
