A Quote by Andy Hargreaves
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Related Quotes
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas.
There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.
We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.
Related Authors
Denis Donoghue Quotes
Irish
Academic
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes
American
Academic
Frank Bidart Quotes
American
Academic
Jacob Neusner Quotes
American
Academic
Jeffrey Rosen Quotes
American
Academic
Marc Lamont Hill Quotes
American
Academic
Michael McFaul Quotes
American
Academic
Mick Dodson Quotes
Australian
Academic
Richard Pipes Quotes
American
Academic
Simon Blackburn Quotes
English
Academic
Stefan Collini Quotes
English
Academic
Stuart L. Hart Quotes
American
Academic
Teresa Ghilarducci Quotes
American
Academic
Vali Nasr Quotes
American
Academic