{"id":17,"date":"2005-09-16T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/walking-through-fire\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:53:58","slug":"walking-through-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/walking-through-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"walking through fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose our goals are to 1) effectively educate students and 2) support and retain good teachers.  <\/p>\n<p>A teaching position is unfilled for 3-4 weeks, with a variety of substitutes taking over.  Understandably, the classes get more and more chaotic, develop a pack mentality and become a teacher&#8217;s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Enter newly hired teacher: young, inexperienced, fresh out of college and idealistic. Place young teacher in single-wide trailer with 32 students, roughly 20 desks and several tables. <\/p>\n<p>Any guesses as to the outcome?<\/p>\n<p>So we return to the age-old dilemma: If our primary purpose is to effectively educate students, why do we give the most challenging classes to the most ill-equipped teachers?  Yes, I know, we all walked through the fire and no one wants to go back there.  But really, philosophically, isn&#8217;t it a bit like handing over your most important and difficult client to the junior-junior associate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose our goals are to 1) effectively educate students and 2) support and retain good teachers. A teaching position is unfilled for 3-4 weeks, with a variety of substitutes taking over. Understandably, the classes get more and more chaotic, develop a pack mentality and become a teacher&#8217;s worst nightmare. Enter newly hired teacher: young, inexperienced, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}