Comments on: Survey: Today’s teaching force is less experienced, more open to change

By: October 26 « tigersteach

October 26 « tigersteach — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:08:09 +0000

[...] the Teaching Profession.” This article includes a link to the full report (16 pages): http://hechingered.org/content/survey-todays-teaching-force-is-less-experienced-more-open-to-change_… The Corona-Norco Unfied School District was the runner-up for the 2012 Broad Prize for Urban [...]

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:01:11 +0000

Teacher pay is not all that bad when you think how many days are spent in the classroom in front of the students per year. An average of 180 days are days students spend in school in most states here in the USA. A calendar year has 365 days, minus 104 for weekends, minus 9 holidays = 252 days. Out of these 252 days take away the average 180 school days of teaching days per year, and teachers don’t work for at least 72 days. What other profession gets an automatic 10 weeks of vacation time per year? The average teaching salary is around $40,000 plus benefits. Depending on experience salaries usually increase every year. When I was teaching my sister had to take a PAY CUT in her Government Job while I received a TEACHER SALARY RAISE during the same time. She got 4 weeks of vacation time a year. So don’t tell me teachers are not paid well. We all knew that teacher salaries weren’t top paying jobs when we went into the profession.
There are students that are hard to handle and don’t to pay attention and make it bad for other kids who are there to learn. But this is a big purposely created government problem in the way that they don’t find ways to help provide places for these students who don’t fit in the norm. This is BIG GOVERNMENT at its worst. Everyone is supposed to be the SAME all inclusive! The government has set up one program top fit all. Sorry it doesn’t work that way. Oh, yeah, it sounds oh so good. But it doesn’t work like that. Get the misfits out of the regular classrooms where student who are there and are ready to learn can be taught. Until BIG GOVERNMENT gets itself out of education with ALL INCLUSIVENESS we will have the same ol’ corruption and belief that this is the only way.
Teachers would be smart to hold the UNION THUGS ACCOUNTABLE. They steal so much of the teacher’s pay just for salaries that line their pockets. Tell the union to help you find places for students who don’t fit the norm and are ruining the education and learning for the ones who are ready to learn. TEACHERS NEED TO MAKE A CONTRACT WITH THE UNIONS to help with education instead of just taking money from the teachers and supporting the Democratic Party. Schools are for ALL PARTIES. Perhaps that’s another reason why schools are failures these days!

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:45:41 +0000

I taught for many years. Not all teachers are the same. Some are in the classroom to work with the higher students and believe that the underachievers will never “get it”. I have heard teacher remarks, “I guess they won’t get it. Oh, well, can’t reach everyone.”
What are colleges doing to prepare teachers? No one seems to hold them accountable, but they sure do charge huge fees for an education. So what are they doing to help improve education? After all isn’t that why students go to college to practice what they learn?

By: JOHNNY BOGGS

JOHNNY BOGGS — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:37:05 +0000

I AM MUCH OLDER,78, BUT WHEN I WAS A STUDENT, TEACHERS WERE NOT UNION. THE UNION HAS MADE THEM LESS INDEPENDENT. THEY SERVE THE UNION BOSS’ES WHICH RESULTS IN THEM BEING TOLD HOW TO THINK, ACT. THE TEACHERS ARE PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE NO MORONS. THEY ARE EDUCATED AND KNOW HOW TO THINK ON THEIR OWN. I KNOW THAT THEY NEED GUIDEANCE FROM THEIR SUPERVISORS, BUT THEY ARE EDUCATED, NOT A PERSON THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD WHEN OR HOW TO TAKE A CRAP. EDUCATION WOULD BE MUCH BETTER IF THEY WERE NOT UNION. EVERBODY LOVES A GOOD TEACHER, SOMEBODY TO SET EXAMPLES FOR YOUR LIFE, BUT THEY DO NOT MUCH RESPECT FOR A FOLLER.

By: Jerry Antone

Jerry Antone — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:49:12 +0000

Teaching is very demanding especially for children who are set in their ways. More and more, children are not willing to learn because they mingle with the wrong crowd after school. They feel that living in a society of torn families that the wishes for a “good life” is not there for them. To expect them to learn means nothing to them, due to many changes happening that are negative at best, that the feeling to change in a very changing world is not for them. Yes, only a few would very much like to take charge and learn something but somewhere along the way, other children would make them a mockery of shame. The teachers are expected to help these children who are under duress are put in a position to work extensively. The salaries are very low and not appreciated for the extra work they are forced to do. A lot of paperwork also come into play especially for children who are label as SPED. There is also a tremendous task teachers have to do to keep up with documents pertaining to posters, testing, 9 weeks exam, and many more. It is very time consuming to keep up with the demands of documents which makes it difficult to teach, monitor, prepare testing, and other demanding schedules. Principals, administrators, teachers, counselors, and other key players do not interact from day to day basis. The only time teachers are able to meet principals and administrators are beginning of the school year and other major situations develop needing there attentions. Other than that, teachers have to play it by ear until evaluations come up or Parent/Teachers meeting, etc. Therefore the job is cumbersome and very demanding.