Word: teacher
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...little wonder, then, that educators worry about meeting the growing demand for teachers without drastically lowering the quality of teaching by hiring untrained recruits. In California more than 16,000 teachers were hired this year to accommodate state-initiated class-size reductions. Barbara Burch, former president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, has warned that unless the lesson plan for teachers is revised, "it is increasingly clear that we are indeed a profession at risk...
Tracy Robinson is part of one of the most promising efforts to remake teacher education--a unique collaboration among the University of 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...
When the bell rang after her unsuccessful lesson in fractions, Robinson immediately sought out her lead teacher, Sandy Luebbe. Lead teachers are considered the very best in the Professional Practice Schools, and they not only counsel the interns but also evaluate their performances. "Sandy is like a video camera," says Robinson, "observing me, saying 'O.K., this is working really well' or 'If you move your arms down to the side, you'll look more open and the kids will want to approach you.'" Luebbe listened to Robinson's account of her ordeal and, referring to little colored bars used...
...claim no originality for this list, rather the reverse: that nearly every experienced teacher who has paid serious and sustained attention to how students acquire core intellectual skills and important substantive insights would come up with a similar list. I propose, then, that every Core course outside the arts offer a section or sections organized along lines similar to those just sketched (or in some other way that could be shown to promote the same ends as effectively...
...Judge Steven Herrera, Tuesday, commenting on the case of Roger Katz. The former Santa Fe school teacher defended himself from the charge of criminal sexual penetration of a former student by explaining that she saved his life in 640 A.D., and that he was merely showing his gratitude...