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I heard they are starting to bring computer based learning programs into the classrooms and have an assistant stand by for concerns. The teacher is only needed to find trouble spots and reprogram the direction of the student or assist until they understand it. Khan Academy is one being used with a lot of success. The future holds some changes for sure. With these programs less teachers will be needed.
I can see it too. K-5 and then online learning at mass babysitting centers for 6-12
Yep. This kind of policy will only make the revolving door of teachers in struggling schools that much more pronounced. This is what happens when you have people who are in the dark about some of the inner-workings in public schools making key decisions.
And what if the people in charge are not in the dark and are doing all this intentionally? As a 21-year teacher at my school, 28 years overall, I feel as if I have a target on my back.
Do they want to make sure no one will teach in their struggling schools unless they are so desperate that they are willing to risk their future livelihood?
If this is the wave of the future, and I highly suspect it is, I can not understand how they expect to keep teachers or encourage people to even enter the education field.
That's the point of it and then turn all of the schools into online "academies" with only teacher aides to monitor the kids if this thing isn't stopped.
Since we know evaluations in education are entirely subjective and based on the opinion of a single person, the principal, this proposal just gives principals even more obscene power by threatening teachers with license revocation.
Once your license has been revoked, your career is finished everywhere in the United States.
I can see it too. K-5 and then online learning at mass babysitting centers for 6-12
Online "learning" for K-12 is a disaster of monstrous proportions and violates every single thing we know about child development, teaching, and learning.
This is literally forcing all children who are not children of the rich into inferior programs so as to limit all access to higher education.
The rich, of course, will still have their hoity-toity private schools and real teachers.
Can't access the article, but I think it would depend on how this is implemented. There are a lot of teachers in the Memphis school system that have no business being teachers, and I would happily see them removed.
You KNOW how it will be "implemented." It will be "implemented" by insane administrators to force out the older, far more "expensive" teachers by ruining their careers.
This is all about getting at the pensions and reducing salaries by scapegoating teachers. Period.
I heard they are starting to bring computer based learning programs into the classrooms and have an assistant stand by for concerns. The teacher is only needed to find trouble spots and reprogram the direction of the student or assist until they understand it. Khan Academy is one being used with a lot of success. The future holds some changes for sure. With these programs less teachers will be needed.
It's debatable whether the Khan or Con Academy is "successful." It is a bunch of junk, in point of fact.
Online "learning" for K-12 is a disaster of monstrous proportions and violates every single thing we know about child development, teaching, and learning.
This is literally forcing all children who are not children of the rich into inferior programs so as to limit all access to higher education.
The rich, of course, will still have their hoity-toity private schools and real teachers.
Private and charters will flourish.
I too have seen online learning vs teacher instruction.
And the move is to more online and less teacher instruction.
I too have seen online learning vs teacher instruction.
And the move is to more online and less teacher instruction.
No, they won't. Private schools are already shutting down because of charters.
Once the rich have milked every last dime from the taxpayers, there will be little left for the masses. The charters will merely turn into private schools, and nobody will have money to pay for them. Those will be gone, too.
After all, people have to compete with China or India or Africa for jobs. Education isn't even that important in the third world; hell, 15-year-olds "teach" the younger children.
In the neolibs demented world, kids don't need any education beyond grade 7 or 8.
You better pray for the sake of society schools don't end up being online garbage. We will have nothing but a bunch of ignorant sociopaths graduating from schools.
It is happening in Colorado too.
50% of my score is about what happens in my classroom, my teaching.
25% of the score is what happens in the school test wise, even though my subject area isn't tested.
25% is growth of my own students
If I am rated ineffective two years in a row then I will become untenured and it would be very easy to fire me.
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