When a person hears the word "teacher", most people would think, "They taught me how to read one year" or "One time we did this math this and it was really cool!" Teachers' jobs and reputations have went from teaching the basics and learning how to keep students interested enough so kids would behave to teaching chidren how to survive in this world and believing in themselves. It is sad, I believe, that teachers have been given this responsibility, however, when I become a teacher, I will more than gladly stand up for what I'm in a school building for and that is, to fight for the right for ALL children to receive an education. Speaking in a Critical Voice makes me cringe to think that there are such people who do not believe in the newfound skills others have or do not have such skills at all. Simply because two teachers teach in two different ways mean nothing. As the article reads at one point, "Every teacher has to have a solid grasp of his assumptions about how people learn and how that translates into the kind of environment the teacher will provide." Each and every person has an idea of some type of how to teach a child something, no two are alike. When new teachers' ideas are pushed to the side, this issue is only pushed to the backburner and as From Silent to Dissent says, "it only takes about six weeks for new teachers to look like old ones."
Teachers have to take a stand for their students. Simply because there is no one else with the time, energy or effort out there to do so.
That's all folks!
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