Check out the average GRE Scores of Education majors. Not good news for our "educators."
Joan > > Hear, hear. > > At one of the places I worked, about half the psych majors were dual > psych/elementary ed majors. > > Pretty alarming stuff. Made me glad I have no children. > > m > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steven Specht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:19 PM >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> Subject: [SPAM] - [tips] RE:Poll Shows Many Can't Find La. on >> Map - Email found in subject >> >> I don't want to over-generalize (I suppose like most people >> who start a sentence with that statement, I probably will be >> over-generalizing), but I have gotten tenure at two >> institutions now and have noticed that, in general, the >> students with whom I have come into contact who are >> interested in education at the elementary or high school >> level are the least interested in "learning" beyond what they >> absolutely need to know. I find that most students interested >> in education are much more interested in "working with >> children" than in education and academics at any serious >> level. There are exceptions of course, but the general >> impression I have gotten is the strongest for any group, in >> my experience. >> >> On May 2, 2006, at 4:13 PM, DeVolder Carol L wrote: >> >> > I will never forget my daughter's 4th grade teacher who >> insisted that >> > my daughter was wrong when she answered a question--the teacher >> > claimed that Cape Cod is NOT in Massechusetts. And this >> same teacher >> > told me at a parent-teacher conference that "she done real good." >> > Scared the daylights out of me. >> > Carol >> > >> > >> > >> > Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. >> > Professor of Psychology >> > Chair, Department of Psychology >> > St. Ambrose University >> > Davenport, Iowa 52803 >> > >> > phone: 563-333-6482 >> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> > --- >> > To make changes to your subscription go to: >> > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl? >> > enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english >> > >> > >> >> >> =======================================================> Steven M. >> Specht, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Psychology >> Utica College >> Utica, NY 13502 >> (315) 792-3171 >> >> "Mice may be called large or small, and so may elephants, and >> it is quite understandable when someone says it was a large >> mouse that ran up the trunk of a small elephant" (S. S. Stevens, 1958) >> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription go to: >> http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mo >> de=0&lang=english >> >> > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > > > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
