Blog Post 14

    This week we were required to read Teaching Children Can be a Profession. This article was about the problem and solutions that arise with the teaching profession.

• Problem: Picking teachers who just have a degree.
• Solution: School systems should recruit from the top third of the graduates.

    I agree with this statement because some teachers really do not know what they are doing sometimes. Also, some teachers are not trained well in all subjects. Some teachers perform better at math and science and others perform better at history and language arts. This hurts the students in the long run. Also, some college graduates just go through the motions before they graduate, so they are not trained well in every subject. 

• Problem: It is hard to remove incompetent teachers.
• Solution: Every student that is an education major should be required to take a "national teacher examination" and should complete 1 to 3 years of supervised internship. 

    I agree with this because every teacher should be at the same level of knowledge. I believe, when the time comes for layoffs, the teachers who do not teach effectively should be laid off first. Teachers should not get too comfortable with their job, because that is when people start to slack. The school systems should not look at years, but at how well the teacher performs. Also, new graduates are taught the new and improved ways of teaching and class management. 

• Problem: Teachers who do not take their job seriously.
• Solution: Have teachers form a board to police the profession, and help teachers, who are not effective, by giving them a college graduate that serves as a teaching assistant.

    I agree with this because every teacher should take their job seriously. Students do not get a choice on if their teachers care about their knowledge well being or not. Some students who do not understand subjects, because of a slacking teacher, grow up to go to college to become teachers. This keeps the cycle of incompetent teachers going. Every student should get every ounce of knowledge from the teacher. 

    Every teacher is not like these mentioned in the article. This article is based on teachers who do not really care that their job impacts so many lives. A teacher effects the lives of his or her students, the parents, the immediate families, and his or her own families. When a teacher slacks on any part or his or her job everyone in the system will fall as well. Teachers are the basis of every future job, so they should treat it that way.