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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: MikeH who wrote (59)9/1/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: mc  Read Replies (2) of 6418
 
I am very hesitant to put much of the blame on teachers. Granted there are some poor ones out there, but, it seems we often leave them out there on their own.

Even if we assume that education majors are less intelligent than other college graduates that doesn't preclude them from being able to teach basic language and math skills. You certainly don't need a BA in math to teach 8th grade algebra.

It seems to me that too much is expected of teachers. School districts have become more and more hands off in regards to specific instructional requirements. If we want our kids to have a consistant, quality education we need to have a system for developing and implementing a curriculum that is not made up on the fly by teachers who have new textbooks and teaching materials dumped on them at the last minute by districts that can't decide what they want to do.

You can't expect teachers, and consequently their students, to be successful when they have to re-invent the wheel year after year.

mc
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