Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interviewer for Harvard, an alumnus from the '60s, said his favorite memories of Harvard were the conversations he engaged in while sitting in the dining hall. The ideas written down on napkins and the intellectual debate, he told me were more astounding than he ever experienced in any classroom, or than he has experienced since--and these are the things that stayed with him. There are times when I yearn for this Harvard, but then I wonder: does that Harvard really exist, or is it only a myth...
...hundred experienced teachers surveyed in 1995 were brutal about the education they had received, describing it as "mind numbing," the "shabbiest psychobabble" and "an abject waste of time." They complained that fragmented, superficial course work had little relevance to classroom realities. And judging by the weak skills of student teachers entering their schools, they observed, the preparation was still woefully inadequate...
...Cincinnati, the Cincinnati public schools, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and the city's business community. Called the Cincinnati Initiative for Teacher Education, or CITE, this five-year program requires participants to obtain a bachelor's degree in humanities or the sciences, then spend a fifth year in the classroom, with pay, under the close guidance of a mentor teacher to earn a teaching diploma. What sets these CITE "interns" apart from traditional student teachers is that for the entire year they are the teachers of record, fully responsible for student behavior and achievement, but they receive lots of help...
...world after four years. But when Yinger took his five-year plan to high school students who had indicated an interest in teaching, he was encouraged by their response. "They could see the value added," he says. "They liked the idea of spending a full year in the classroom before going out to teach on their own, and the notion of getting two degrees." Teachers sometimes feel trapped in the profession because they don't have a degree in anything else. "In the old traditional programs," says Yinger, "we put a lot of teachers out there who already knew they...
Equally important, CITE interns study specific theories of learning, behavior and classroom management while testing them in real-world situations. In the typical teachers' college, such subjects are taught as large lecture classes in the first or second year...