EDF 1005 Reflection 1

In colonial times teaching was taught by teaching them the subject then the matter, and having one on one time experience with students. These practices are still done today there are alternative teaching. Which are that they expect that college graduates know there material they can take fundamentals to teaching and start to teach. On the next year he in enrolls into university level courses and then will be licensed to teach. Every state has a ready to teach program and that is how many of them work. There is a huge controversy about Teach for America this is a program that you are placed in rural poor area to teach. In other words you swim or sink. Some people say this program is great because it gives collage graduates a chance to see what it is really like to teach. After a year or two see if you are fit to be teacher. Others say that it is an outrage, it is crazy to but students in this situation because the ones that come out affected are the students not the teachers. And after two years many of them don’t want to teach anymore. All they are doing is wasting money and time in the long run. Teachers that have been in TFA say that a few things have to be fixed. To begin with, not to leave the teacher just floating rather to help them every step of the way. And also give them more training and not just throw them in and expect them to do great. The reform efforts of the 1980s took place because there was no money for the expectations that school boards had for schools. The schools had no money to teach or even to pay extra teachers. There were not many books for the amount of students. They had to bring down their expectations due to the fact of economic facts. Schools and teachers were not able to live up to the standards that were expected from them.