Student success is tied to teacher expertise, yet TFA only trains its members for five weeks before placing them in schools. One lawmaker says these programs need to be banned from classrooms if California wants to close its education gap.
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This lady is 100% right. I was in a Teach for American type program. I was put in the classroom after 6 weeks of training. It was so stressful! I had no idea what I was doing. I feel bad for the students who had me as a teacher the first two or three years. Its criminal that they put untrained teachers in the classroom. No other profession would tolerate this. We don't respect kids enough to have basic professional integrity in regards to them.
I've worked in public school classrooms for the last 30 years and have witnessed the skills of a large number of experienced and inexperienced teachers. This woman absolutely knows what she is talking about.
Yeah, calibama neolib s LOVE charter schools, online degrees, and, in general, a low info citizenship 🤮
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The US likes to dumb down their population so the elite can rob them…. then feed them all that MAGA type of bullshit.
I love the Real News Network. Great reporting. And, to top it off, Kim’s rocking the Ghostface poster in her office!? Next level.
If the teacher's unions weren't treated as enemies they could set up an apprenticeship for new teachers to train them.
I applied for TFA and it’s truly novice program. It’s just another way to slash teacher’s salaries. I was only interviewed by white people for low income urban settings. Does it make sense?
Teach For America is not good, Bob Somerby has been detailing this for decades in his blog The Daily Howler (Somerby has his own issues but he is usually excellent on his education-related posts). Christina Garcia has an interesting history – she rooted out some local political corruption, and then those politicians turned around and accused her of harassment, it is unclear if those accusations are founded, her political career is a bit muddy. Christina Garcia seems politically ambitious, her TFA bill is likely a good idea, but not especially impactful. I would like to see her and others address a much bigger impediment to increasing the number of good teachers, which is the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision. The WEP makes it very difficult for those who have had other careers but want to transition into a teaching career, by drastically cutting their SS benefits because often teachers receive their own pension in lieu of SS; however, they have earned those SS benefits and teachers have to pay into their pension many years before just breaking even, so it penalizes anyone wanting to switch careers later in life.
Give me One school class and three A+ H.S.students from the same school and neighborhoods and I'll prove her wrong. If K-12 has done even an adequate job then by grade 12 they should be capable of teaching lower grades at least partially. Since they are from the same school and neighborhoods, they will already understand exactly what the students need as they have overcome such obstacles themselves.
Some, even many public schools have such a poor record, anything we can try would be better.
Thank you for pointing out. You never see TFA teachers staff middle or higher income communities because the school boards know how poorly trained they are. Lower income schools have a hard time recruiting teachers especially those who are more experienced because low income communities don’t pay as much and the students carry more social economic baggage than their higher income peers.
The US becomes more pathetically greedy every day; under covid-19 every hour.