First-year teaching is a survival of the fittest contest. National statistics are not changing and 40% of classroom teachers leave teaching in their first five years in the profession. Stop and consider that fact for a moment. A teacher pays $80,000 or more for a baccalaureate degree and teaching license. Their move to a new town and investment in renting or buying a home is a huge emotional as well as financial commitment. Then they walk away from that effort and expense. The reasons must be ginormous. Continue reading
Would I want me to be my teacher?
If the perception we have of our teaching is not the perception have of our teaching, what are we prepared to do about it?
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Career Prep Pathways Need Prioritizing
School boards need to re-evaluate their priorities, acknowledge the 40% of graduates who do not enroll in a college or university, and start paving a CTE curriculum where students’ footprints already exist. Continue reading
Change Cell Phones from Distractions to Learning Tools
Every generation of teacher and student has a issue they fight over. Today it is cell phones. Make these into learning tools not distractors and get on with teaching learning. Continue reading
Rules Should Serve Kids Not Adults
Today it’s cell phones and backpacks. Depending upon your generation, it was chewing gum, the length of girls’ skirts, boys’ low-slung jeans and exposed boxers, high school boys with face hair, or checking that every child showered after PE class. … Continue reading