Teach Effectively!

A special educator who calls herself “mama t” in her blog and had previously reported that she was ready to bail from teaching, last week wrote that she has decided to stay. Although she is bothered by aspects of contemporary education—especially testing and matter of “highly qualified” imposed by NCLB (often called “nickle bee”; hence the title of this entry)—she has decided to opt for the stability and rewards she gets from teaching.

in the coming year i’ll be taking more certification tests. specifically for: ELA 4-8, ELA 8-12, Reading Specialist, and Librarian. this way, when my current job moves from a resource classroom to a co-teaching situation i’ll be able to get a job in which i can maintain my own classroom or leave the classroom for a library. longterm i would like to pursue a Master’s in Information Science and become a full-fledged librarian.

I hope this works for her. More importantly, I hope that she learns about evidence-based educational practices during her studies. (I have a post about an earlier posting of mama t’s in which she lauds the discredited modality view of learning; I should polish it and post it. I think I got lost with a lead about how she uses “missteach” in the URL and I sometimes use “misteach” in referring to bogus teaching ideas such as modality-based reading.)

Link to Ms. t’s statement about staying with teaching.