Thank you to the Huffington Post for sharing my story: ” target=”_hplink”>Confessions of a Bad Teacher, shares that “America's public school teachers are being loudly and unfairly blamed for the failure of our nation's public schools.” As a 2012 nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and a veteran of public and private schools for the last twenty years, I have to agree but I was glad to hear someone else say it in print.
The vast majority of teachers are working overtime without the tools or budget to manage the plethora of issues inside and outside the classroom. On top of that, administrators who only compound the situation by micromanaging the wrong things make the lives of teachers completely untenable with their lack of support. Most teaching preparation programs including the one Mr. Owens attended do not adequately prepare anyone for life in the classroom.
For many beginning teachers, “It was as though I had just joined the circus as an apprentice clown and was immediately required to juggle plates, bowling pins, butcher's knives, and axes all day long while walking along a tightrope in midair.” Teachers make more decisions per hour than any other job including what to do with a student who falls behind, manage students with learning or emotional problems, tailor each lesson every day to up to 125 students or more who are somewhere between illiterate and highly gifted. Sadly some administrators, students and parents instead of partnering with teachers, blame “teachers which is easier than doing a massive system overhaul.”
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In Los Angeles, new teachers and old can find mentorship and engaging lessons with the ” target=”_hplink”>Career Day. She and her husband George are on a career break sharing their world adventures on
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