I genuinely don't understand how anyone in education can be this stupid:
This moment is calling for us to transform the role of teachers into facilitators, advisors, and mentors who enable young people to navigate a rich menu of learning experiences, make sense of their learning, and build safe and loving home bases where youth can explore and contribute to the world and support one another. We must rethink what young people need to know and be able to do, ensuring they develop the robust set of knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to lead meaningful, fulfilling lives. As we embark on this reinvention, we must build these new systems and opportunities in ways that ensure students of color and others marginalized by our current system receive what they need to thrive and excel.
I'm not a facilitator or an advisor. I'm a teacher. I teach.
And if the word "rich" is used in education circles, it's often el toro doo-doo.
I can't even go on fisking this. It's completely vacuous edu-babble. And it ends, of course, with the "marginalized" "students of color" canard--as if skin color dictates how your brain works and how you learn.
*sigh*
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Education Majors (and the EdD administrators) have become poisoned with Crypto-Marxist (and not so Crypto). If we want the Western World to survive, these people need to no longer be in positions of influence.
50% of the country's problems start in ed school.
Teachers aren't taught how to teach, they are taught social justice instead. I've looked over the USC and UCLA classes for an ed degree, and you can pretty much get through taking almost nothing but social justice activism classes.
When they hit the classroom, their "soft bigotry of low expectations", carefully ingrained by their professors, dooms the kids who need them to teach them something.
Kids leave school, either prematurely or with a piece of paper, with no skills and, too often, not even being able to read.
If ed schools ditched the crap, taught proven strategies for teaching (phonics, direct instruction, knowledge curricula) instead of "teachers should be facilitators" and "collaborative learning" and "self-esteem trumps everything", so many of our problems would disappear.
Edubabble it is. The worst thing to hear as a teacher is "Administrators have been to a conference." That means they've been wined and dined and talked into buying some overpriced program that promises to raise test scores and graduation rates for specific populations. The last one I remember the admin bought every teacher in the district (2000+) a copy of a book about buses and vampires and what all. It too was edubabble. There was also the year that they spent over $300 per copy for a binder full of glorified Venn diagrams that they called "Organizers" which all classes were supposed to use to improve student retention. For what they spent they could've hired more teachers or aides and alleviate much of the overcrowding.
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