1. • jobs and education misalignment
• does not work as well as it could
• should be a concentration on
fundamentals
• practice teaching should be full year
• video taping actual lessons would be helpful
• written research in classroom teaching should also be required
• moire diagnostic approach to student teaching evaluations
• need a clearer picture of a candidates strengths and weaknesses
• need to see how the student teacher interacts with the students
• not enough real world experience
• too much classwork during student teaching
• need district involvement in the university professional development
• stronger connection between employer and instruction
• need a more reliable measurement for pre-service teacher candidates
• pretty frustrating
• relaxed prior to interview
• smiles
• body language changes to tense as we talk
• obviously frustrated
• leaning in
• no longer smiling
• hands open and facing up - supplication?
• interview over, relaxed again
• some early success with a district program
• other experience has been less successful
• candidates selected in the past were surprising (in a bad way)
• same as above
• one of the problems from the past
• unprepared candidates were selected
• trying to get more real teaching experience into the practice teaching
• disconnect between what is structured and what is needed
• I want to be able to solve this problem
• This is someone who really cares about
the outcome, but feels powerless to
change it
The school to work continuum
is flawed for teacher education
in a variety of ways.
1. No connection between
customer (school district)
and provider.
2. No reliable measurement
with which to gage the
quality of the output.
3. No follow-up from the
supplier.
4. Pro-active districts provide
the missing professional
development for the new
hires to ensure success.
If this were a retail arrangement,
the universities that provide
teacher education would be out
of business.. They are not providing
a quality product or a means by which
to evaluate that product to their
customers.
An educational organization
hiring newly-trained teachers
communicate with their
supplier universities
there is currently no feedback
loop for them to influence the
education process or reliable
way to evaluate the product.