Hundreds of teachers have complained to Education Secretary Arne Duncan about the inadequate training they’ve received from education school programs. Specifically, teachers are not being prepared to deal with classroom behaviors.
I’m not surprised. While earning my Master of Education degree, the only training we received in the area of classroom behaviors was a brief class wherein we discussed the book The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong.
During a speech last week at Columbia University’s Teacher College, Duncan described most education school programs as “mediocre”:
“By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation’s 1,450 schools, colleges and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st-century classroom.”
This is a great article. We need to have more light shown on
the education of our teachers. These men and women are
educating the future of this country and their preparation
should be first class.