Word: teacher
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...Harvard isn't a teacher-training school," a friend pointed out. "Students don't come here just to graduate and go into some public high school or middle school." The more I thought about it, the more I realized she was right. Students at Harvard have bigger plans than just teaching...right...
...most cases, yes. Lots of us want to be lawyers, doctors, millionaire business tycoons. But a small minority on campus--approximately 40 students in all--are enrolled in a joint program between the College and the Graduate School of Education (GSE) entitled the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP). Students divide their coursework between their College concentration and education requirements at the GSE, including classes on child psychology and teaching in secondary schools. They finish the program by actually student-teaching in the Boston area for a semester. When they graduate, they have enough credits to apply for certification to teach...
...UTEP? Definitely yes," Elizabeth Hodder, the program's coordinator, wrote me in an email. "UTEP gives some fine and very talented people the opportunity and preparation to project that understanding and talent in their schools." She adds, however, that "it takes more than good-will to be an effective teacher...
...answer might be the lack of respect the teaching profession is given throughout the nation. Moss points out, "Teaching is in a state of quasi-professionalism. Teachers are technically professionals with professional training, but they are not making professional salaries or earning professional respect." One of the best ways to change the attitudes of politicians who use teacher bashing as the main plank of their campaign platforms or of those who view teachers as unskilled laborers covered in chalk dust is to get into the classroom and improve the education of our nation's children. Harvard would do well...
Still, the lengendary folkster harbors some fond memories: his first-year English teacher, nights spent waiting, with the other six boys who lived in rooms above the Union, for the watchman to make his rounds so they could sneak down and get some ice cream--and feeling a bit guilty until, one night, they encountered the watchman having a taste as well...