The California Report: Obama's Plans for Teachers

Linda Darling-Hammond, chair of President-elect Obama's education transition team, discusses the new adminstration's plans for teacher recruitment and retention.

For more on what Obama's education reform policy could mean for California's schools, listen to our radio report at TheCaliforniaReport.org.

Video produced by the California Media Collaborative (californiamedia.org).

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[HighestRank]

Whoever thumbed down on "Hired teachers ought to arrive ready to teach"... I seriously doubt has ANY realization of how modern instructors are being "adapted to students" by large mandatory motivational seminars in which employers are educating their teachers ONLY in quality of teaching. "Retention" is simply a ratio used to determine which teachers "deserve" to keep their jobs... Eliminate is to poop as Void is to pee. Don't let the euphemisms trick you; question the language!

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Good empira. There should be a limit at each age level of how basic the fundamentals may be questioned. Let's start be questioning language: the phrase "MAKING friends" sounds too much like we're buying their loyalty. Let's abolish it from the vernacular language. Next level we'll replace it with an accepted wording. Next let's abolish the word "your" since people mistake it for "you're" too often. The Spanish language uses "you" in the place of "your", why not us?

[teemuruskeepaa]

I'd like replace tests and scores by the measuring of the student's ability to prove empirically the taught things, to present existing claims and their empiria and to present new and better empiria. Students should do this in the class room and the teacher's role should be to express superior empiria to the limit of their competence. The teacher should concentrate on the individuals' ability to express their own empiria and be competent enough to challenge it with facts.

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Nevertheless, this models the way things are done overseas; in Japan, a student asking a question is shaming the professor's competence. Unless the professor allows undergraduates or colleagues to score papers, a science classroom is ESPECIALLY totalitarian. If a student's empira didn't help him balance an equation, he earns no points. He either learned the wording of a hypothesis or didn't. Of coure students can present relevant empira in classes but listning to your peers is not on the test...

[teemuruskeepaa]

No, scientific knowledge is a synthesis of different empirical facts, that are searched for according to different hypothesis. If students are not allowed present their empiria, their opinions about things, to which the teacher will answer and vice versa, the subject of teaching is questionable, as well as the competence of the teacher. School is not a totalitarian command institution.

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~ Your thinking is questionable: an opinion cannot belong to a school.

Teaching is fake when learning is unusable, says the African student. If the question will not be on a test, they leave the classroom. The diploma is what empowers them. Bah Humbug.

If anyone knows "something new" but cannot explain it, they do not understand their STUDENT'S WAY OF THINKING. Unless you're teaching bleeding-edge technology research, nothing is really "NEW".

[HighestRank]

You can wait or you can make it happen, gomer pyle.

[teemuruskeepaa]

Your opinion is very authoritarian. It doesn't belong to schools. Teaching is unnecessary and fake, unless it has something improving and empowering to the students. Furthermore, teachers shouldn't serve their pupils, or the needs that their parents or the society presents to the school system. Teacher must question errors in the ways of thinking and prove that the alternative works better. The question about hired teachers is kind of pointless. Have only people who know something new.

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Operating a publicly traded business can no longer be the domain of one CEO or exec. Successes like Gates and Trump will be increasingly exceptions to the norm of the future.

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Hired teachers ought to arrive ready to teach, new learning should be in adapting to serve individual students.