My favourite teacher was my kindergarden secondary math & biology teacher. They were the best. They went out of their way to tutor me. They never treated me with sexism racism or anything like that. They were always so patient careful with me. Most teachers get annoyed of me because I am so slow in reading writing understanding abstract concepts... and I ask too many questions. They even sometimes call me stupid. IDK... whatever I just remembered and moved forward.
if you ask any legitimate teacher. There are some people in the TFA program who can be legitimate teachers but they are few and far in between. People need to understand that TEACHING is a PROFESSION you need to pass a legitimate state test to be licensed to practice. Furthermore you cannot compress 4+ years of education and pedagogy into 5 weeks of training. Period.
In order to do TFA you do have to take certification exams and they choose people with a lot of different experiences. And you can't discredit a degree as no education just because it wasn't in a teacher training program. An argument can be made that a TFA candidate may have more knowledge about a specific area since that's where all their focus and passion was in their education.
Kristin Mulcahy no...anyone can be knowledgeable about any subject...but TEACHING it effectively requires training. the problem with TFA is that it is a high turnover program that spews undertrained teachers to areas that need really experienced teachers. at the end of the day, the students suffer. the "certification exam" that TFA requires is really insufficient. it's a gold star sticker posing as a certificate. i don't discredit the intent of TFA teachers, but the program is a joke.
Well I'm in TFA after working two AmeriCorps programs in undeserved communities. I've spent more days in a classroom than I can count, and while my degree says Political Science I'm still a certified government teacher. And the certification exams I had to take are the exact same as any other person who goes through a traditional educational training program.
+Lunch Box Correction: It's not a certification exam that TFA requires. It's the same state certification exams that every other teacher has to take that is given by the state.
If you have been in the system 10 years you don't need to stay until 7pm because you have your lessons designed, you don't stay until 7 because you have more energy you stay until 7 because that is what all teachers do their first 5 years figuring out their lessons.
Much like an addict seeking help. absolutely nothing will change until the people in these communities seek it themselves. Feel-good crusaders from the outside are a band-aid at most.
How can you expect to do a good job after 5 weeks of training? Would you do surgery after being trained for 5 weeks? In what sense is teaching simpler than the medical profession? These young people have been completely misled by TFA.
I know being a teacher is not easy.. you know with all the standards looking after all the children then to make all the lesson plans and keep up with everything is exhausting. Thinking if I were to be a teacher... you have to be responsible and really just on point every time all the time because you are liable for such a massive population and they have a future to think about.
If you want to teach you go back to school and get a teaching degree. The kids are not the reason you are here. You are here to advance your career outside of the classroom.
going back far as early childhood and development. I think the main thing is to teach the children; the people of the future that literacy information is an outlet for them for a brighter and better future. However first you need all the basic understanding such as math English science all those other components of education.
I think by impacting education it can also impact other areas of problems such as poverty hunger unemployment & attack other social problems rooted in education. HMM but the problem also goes back to access to education, higher education and retention in higher education
is the TFA a pilot programme only for 2 years? The contract is usually for two years I think leading to master programme... I am not too sure. Teaching into the long haul is difficult. You get tired your get annoyed and just frustrated. I mean fix things within the system? within the person... within the world. I think by impacting students within the education system it will help them be empowered later on to play a greater role impacting the overall system and the world.
It is amazing how some people are able to even get out, they are lucky. Life problems play a strain on people too. You have to be really motivated into the long haul then some more and to make a really lasting impact is to stay you whole life with the system not 2 years. But if you are going to stay have to work and keep working... please do not be a parasite in the system impacting so many lives.
Not in it for the money? I am! Well, if i were to join TFA i'd be in it for the kids _AND_ the money. It must be true what most people say about teachers not getting paid enough. No wonder Walter White did what he did....
It is so weird live in poverty means horrible education system.. then to live in wealth a better education system... to get out of poverty is education.. so strive for education higher education to get out stay out then to come back and to pull others out and continue then come back stay there to rebuild it back up to better into a no more poverty.. altogether eradicate poverty and ignorance...
There needs to be a rehaul of some many things in the system in the curriculum in the teaching... need to change it up all the time every time.. non stop and constantly retrofit to whatever policy or this or that... makes you want to commit suicide if you were a teacher trying to adhere to all these alterations. Seems stressful. HMMM I will give it a try.
Altogether eradicate poverty and ignorance...where else is the system broken? where people are now held down... reduce unemployment increase job markets create new job markets maintain those job markets and thrive thrive thrive... innovation... problems problems problems.
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Notice the two teachers who happen to have had a more successful experience are not included in this final interview.
My favourite teacher was my kindergarden secondary math & biology teacher. They were the best. They went out of their way to tutor me. They never treated me with sexism racism or anything like that. They were always so patient careful with me. Most teachers get annoyed of me because I am so slow in reading writing understanding abstract concepts... and I ask too many questions. They even sometimes call me stupid. IDK... whatever I just remembered and moved forward.
if you ask any legitimate teacher. There are some people in the TFA program who can be legitimate teachers but they are few and far in between. People need to understand that TEACHING is a PROFESSION you need to pass a legitimate state test to be licensed to practice. Furthermore you cannot compress 4+ years of education and pedagogy into 5 weeks of training. Period.
In order to do TFA you do have to take certification exams and they choose people with a lot of different experiences. And you can't discredit a degree as no education just because it wasn't in a teacher training program. An argument can be made that a TFA candidate may have more knowledge about a specific area since that's where all their focus and passion was in their education.
Kristin Mulcahy no...anyone can be knowledgeable about any subject...but TEACHING it effectively requires training. the problem with TFA is that it is a high turnover program that spews undertrained teachers to areas that need really experienced teachers. at the end of the day, the students suffer. the "certification exam" that TFA requires is really insufficient. it's a gold star sticker posing as a certificate. i don't discredit the intent of TFA teachers, but the program is a joke.
Lunch Box exactly.
Well I'm in TFA after working two AmeriCorps programs in undeserved communities. I've spent more days in a classroom than I can count, and while my degree says Political Science I'm still a certified government teacher. And the certification exams I had to take are the exact same as any other person who goes through a traditional educational training program.
+Lunch Box Correction: It's not a certification exam that TFA requires. It's the same state certification exams that every other teacher has to take that is given by the state.
If you have been in the system 10 years you don't need to stay until 7pm because you have your lessons designed, you don't stay until 7 because you have more energy you stay until 7 because that is what all teachers do their first 5 years figuring out their lessons.
Much like an addict seeking help. absolutely nothing will change until the people in these communities seek it themselves. Feel-good crusaders from the outside are a band-aid at most.
How can you expect to do a good job after 5 weeks of training? Would you do surgery after being trained for 5 weeks? In what sense is teaching simpler than the medical profession? These young people have been completely misled by TFA.
I know being a teacher is not easy.. you know with all the standards looking after all the children then to make all the lesson plans and keep up with everything is exhausting. Thinking if I were to be a teacher... you have to be responsible and really just on point every time all the time because you are liable for such a massive population and they have a future to think about.
If you want to teach you go back to school and get a teaching degree. The kids are not the reason you are here. You are here to advance your career outside of the classroom.
going back far as early childhood and development. I think the main thing is to teach the children; the people of the future that literacy information is an outlet for them for a brighter and better future. However first you need all the basic understanding such as math English science all those other components of education.
I think by impacting education it can also impact other areas of problems such as poverty hunger unemployment & attack other social problems rooted in education. HMM but the problem also goes back to access to education, higher education and retention in higher education
is the TFA a pilot programme only for 2 years? The contract is usually for two years I think leading to master programme... I am not too sure. Teaching into the long haul is difficult. You get tired your get annoyed and just frustrated. I mean fix things within the system? within the person... within the world. I think by impacting students within the education system it will help them be empowered later on to play a greater role impacting the overall system and the world.
It is amazing how some people are able to even get out, they are lucky. Life problems play a strain on people too. You have to be really motivated into the long haul then some more and to make a really lasting impact is to stay you whole life with the system not 2 years. But if you are going to stay have to work and keep working... please do not be a parasite in the system impacting so many lives.
thk you for posting these videos
Not in it for the money? I am! Well, if i were to join TFA i'd be in it for the kids _AND_ the money. It must be true what most people say about teachers not getting paid enough. No wonder Walter White did what he did....
Teach For America's regions pay 30-40 Thousand a year, teaching isn't where the money is.
Most definitely no child left behind. No human life left behind on the international scale.
Why didn't any of these teachers get interviewed for the "Waiting for Superman" movie?
Being a teacher is easy because of teacher's unions. Get rid of those stupid unions - then I'd take criticisms against TFA seriously.
It is so weird live in poverty means horrible education system.. then to live in wealth a better education system... to get out of poverty is education.. so strive for education higher education to get out stay out then to come back and to pull others out and continue then come back stay there to rebuild it back up to better into a no more poverty.. altogether eradicate poverty and ignorance...
There needs to be a rehaul of some many things in the system in the curriculum in the teaching... need to change it up all the time every time.. non stop and constantly retrofit to whatever policy or this or that... makes you want to commit suicide if you were a teacher trying to adhere to all these alterations. Seems stressful. HMMM I will give it a try.
Altogether eradicate poverty and ignorance...where else is the system broken? where people are now held down... reduce unemployment increase job markets create new job markets maintain those job markets and thrive thrive thrive... innovation... problems problems problems.