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.
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Dr. Lloyd, I am asking as nice as can be expected to remove all information about
me from your website. If you wanted to write about me or take my blog and add it to your
list of things to exploit, you could have contacted me. Luckily, I have since deleted
everything from my blog because I realized it was not a good idea to discuss my line of
work through a blog. It was intended for my family, but apparently I struck your fancy
instead. The next time I randomly look my name up on the internet, I hope my name is
erased from your website. I am totally embarassed and annoyed. I would think someone
with a Ph.D would have more important things to do than read a recently graduated college
student’s blog. I don’t regret what I wrote, but that’s what I was feeling at the time.
Things have gotten better, but let me tell you something. There were times when I
wondered if this was for me, but it is for me whether you think so or not. IT IS
frustrating to be a brand new teacher and get slammed with not one but 3 new students at
the same time when you’re trying to understand the ways of your new school. It’s been a
struggle, and one that I have dealt with fairly well. I made a horrible choice in making
a blog, and I want it ALL removed from this website. I’m trying to put that stupid blog
behind me, and when I thought I did, here it is again. Please remove all information
about K. Pointer removed. Thank you.