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Reasons not to teach in a school
86 CommentsKaryn Romeis, frequent commenter on this blog, has a great post entitled Why I’m not a schoolteacher. This bit resonates with me: ‘One conversation that keeps coming up is “what is education for?” Until we can get that one sussed, I can’t see myself on the inside of the formal education system.’ Indeed. This is kind of the area of my Ed.D. thesis and a reason why I get extraordinarily frustrated in my current occupation. At least half of the times we do things in schools just because ‘that’s the way it’s always been done’. :s
Published on July 23, 2007 · Filed under: Uncategorized;
86 Responses to “Reasons not to teach in a school”
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As I read your posts, I have a mounting fear that you are going to be lost to the teaching profession, too. Not necessarily that you will leave education completely, but that you will leave the classroom, where we sorely need more passionate practitioners, particularly male ones (if it isn't too politically incorrect to say so).
Where, oh where is that legendary little boy who stuck his thumb in the dam and saved the whole of the Netherlands? We need his thumb to stop teachers leaking out of the system. -
Doug Hi,
Join the throng ( well small group) of tech savvy ICT users who can see another way, however struggle within a system in which change is like trying to chamge course on a super tanker – I also feel very frustrated and oddly enough can have a dialogue about this and issues with people around the Uk and around the world – but not on my own patch !!!! -
Thanks for the comments, Karyn and Paul. The problem is that, despite token efforts to 'listen' to teachers and be innovative, the educational institutions are usually the most conservative and reactionary within a given country. And it's certainly no different in the UK.
As you've both alluded to, this means that those who can see how things can be better become increasingly frustrated and leave the teaching profession. This is a crying shame as it is these people who should be leading educational reform. Paul, I like your analogy to a super tanker… ;)
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Amanda Tomkins said on July 27th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I have only been teaching for a year – just completed my NQT year – and already I am feeling stiffled by the system.
It's all targets targets targets and I we seem to be expected to reach those targets at the detriment to the overall education of a child if necessary.
I'm not happy at the moment. -
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