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Comment on: "From the Corps to the Classroom

Highly Qualified Teachers: Es Muy Obscuro

3 Comments
Thursday, April, 12, 2007 10:34 AM michael i writes:

Credentialed does not mean "qualified"

...except to bureaucrats who confuse paperwork with effective work. NEA union bosses are happy to go along with the pretense because it is yet another way to protect their entrenched goldbricking dues payers.
 
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Tuesday, April, 24, 2007 12:20 AM AZ History Teacher writes:

highly qualified

please check my blog for my thoughts on this! there is a link here on this blog "the death of teaching"

again what is highly qualified? if i have been teaching something for 10 years, am I highly qualified? according to these laws now, i am not. also how about schools sending letters to parents saying that a teacher is not highly qualified to cover their asses?

on paper this sounds like a good thing, the reality is that people who have been teaching things for a while and are good at it might lose their jobs.
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Monday, April, 30, 2007 6:15 PM Husker Jeff writes:

What is a teacher?

Currently the definition of a teacher is someone who keeps order (or trys) in class, keeps attendence, and provides the proper political slant on the world to their "students". Nothing in the job evaluation of any teacher I have seen in the past 10 years has focused on whether the student learned or what they learned.

Until we define teacher as someone who successfully teaches and fire the ones who don't, our education system will remain in crisis.
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