WTF is this intending to accomplish? How in the world does it make education better? I'm not even asking rhetorically...I literally have no comprehension of how this makes any sense.
It'd be like requiring a physician to learn bartending before getting her medical license renewed.
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Ridiculous.
http://www.jointhefuture.org/join-the-future/kasich-budget-calls-for-teachers-to-intern-with-local-businesses-as-license-renewal-criteria
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Whut.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned on my thread, I think this is the result of the "business community" bitching that common core isn't creating perfect employees right out of high school and so they are asking for teachers to understand what business owners need in order to design curricula that churn out said employees.
ReplyDeleteThe business community doesn't understand what high school education is mandated to be. They don't understand that you need two years of a foreign language and requiring Spanish teachers to change oil in your Jiffy Lube isn't going to magically make high school graduates that are ready to fix cars in your shop!
ReplyDeleteThis just seems like an inconvenience for everyone involved. The teachers have to waste their time interning, the businesses have to waste their time accommodating teachers interning when they're trying to conduct business, and the students aren't going to be getting any benefits that prepare them for higher education.
ReplyDeleteFree slave labor, Foxconn is arriving on US shores, Oops, my mistake, Walmart and fast food chains were already here first.
ReplyDeleteHuh. New business regulations from conservatives.
ReplyDeleteThis is complete nonsense from those who think schools should be nothing more than training grounds for jobs, with maybe some religious indoctrination thrown in, never mind social skills, cultural literacy, critical thinking, and other important aspects of education.
ReplyDeleteIt's corporate-think bullshit, from the same drawer that opposes minimum-wage increases because those employees should 'work harder' to demonstrate their enthusiasm or gratitude or whatever.
ReplyDeleteIt's failing to understand the changing business environment.
When I started in my industry, I was able to glom onto manuals and teach myself certain things. Because I had grown up as a curious kid, I would ask questions of installers and repair personnel, knowing that I'd be the person to whom co-workers would turn.
Today, that kind of initiative is blocked. New employees are expected to demonstrate all of the knowledge and skill without the business making any investment in them, or making avenues to that knowledge and skill available.
The problem isn't in the classroom.
perhaps just for subsets of matching businesses and school subjects i can see this actually making sense. i'm thinking of math and sciences here, where the lack of real world applications in school is often held as an example of what makes these subjects "hard" for kids.
ReplyDeletepicture a math teacher starting the fall semester with "this summer i applied the skills you're expected to learn next by helping workers at a land surveying firm understand least squares and error propagation. here's what land surveyors do and here is where things can go horribly horribly wrong for them and how that is all mitigated by understanding this semester's subject"
programming classes could draw from pretty much any work environment (even burger flipping at mcdonalds), biology could draw from local wildlife companies (bit of info impacting how you safely remove squirrels and bats from your home, why you don't kill them or move them more than 5 miles, etc).
i don't have a lot of faith in conservative politicians actually taking this approach - which still leaves lots of questions on the topic for me... but i CAN see ways for some classes to become more tractable through a liberal application of this apparently conservative idea. hell, it could even benefit the local community if you consider a role reversal: each year businesses must entertain inputs from local teachers/scholars somehow related to their field. phrased in that way it sounds a lot different, eh?
maybe i'm just overtired and my optimism is taking over (flew a red-eye from CA last night / this morning and haven't slept yet)
The level of crazy is rising exponentially. I can't imagine what 2018 will have in store. Where the hell is my alien family to take me back to my home planet?
ReplyDeleteWell, shyte, I'm already doing that. I work at Papa John's on Friday and Saturday nights.
ReplyDeleteJared Eldredge The problem with this is mainly that teachers are already overworked, highly skilled, and grossly underpaid - to ask them to take "internships" in random unrelated fields like they are freaking college freshmen is unspeakably insulting with very little gain.
ReplyDeleteThe "applied" part of the curricula - like your surveyor example - can be achieved with a field trip or a guest lecture or student internships or any number of other ways that aren't demeaning to educators.
Gabrielle Aydnwylde yep, it's all about cranking out skilled labor but not thinking labor, necessarily a thinking one.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the way this is worded means even I would have to do this - I'm a special education teacher of elementary students who doesn't get summers off. How does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteIs this Ohio or has Kasich been tapped federally?
ReplyDeleteOhio.
ReplyDeleteI bet there'd be way more benefit to society if business owners and executives were forced to spend some time helping in classrooms than the other way around.
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