{"id":1006,"date":"2008-12-26T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/eduwonkette-survivor-the-tfa-edition-ii\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T21:15:15","slug":"eduwonkette-survivor-the-tfa-edition-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/eduwonkette-survivor-the-tfa-edition-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"eduwonkette: Survivor: The TFA Edition, II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teach for America drives me nuts.&#160; The teaching profession is NOT the Peace Corps!  We need people to stay longer than a 2 year commitment.&#160; The below reading seems to share my opinion. (And don&#8217;t get me started on the ex-military that was teaching for a time, want to talk about bad classroom management&#8230;) <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m the anthesis of the studies, as I started out teaching 4 preps, and have never taught less than that.&#160; However, I was and am &quot;highly quafilied&quot; when it comes to the subjects I teach, since I am certified in both computer science and math.&#160; Most of the years I have taught, I have taught both math and CS.&#160; I&#8217;d also like to see the CS breakdown and how many stay.&#160; They lumped CS with science.<\/p>\n<p>All of these articles concerning TFA are interesting. <\/p>\n<p>Quoted from <cite>http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/eduwonkette\/2008\/12\/survival_the_tfa_edition_ii.html<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/eduwonkette\/2008\/12\/survival_the_tfa_edition_ii.html\"> eduwonkette: Survivor: The TFA Edition, II <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\nOne thing seems clear, however. <strong>If we want novice teachers to stay in their   initial schools and to stay in teaching, they need adequate support as they   learn their craft in the first years of teaching.<\/strong> Asking teachers to teach   multiple grades, multiple subjects and\/or subjects out of their college major   fields is a peculiar way of supporting them.<br \/>\n<!--EndFragment-->\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teach for America drives me nuts.&#160; The teaching profession is NOT the Peace Corps! We need people to stay longer than a 2 year commitment.&#160; The below reading seems to share my opinion. (And don&#8217;t get me started on the ex-military that was teaching for a time, want to talk about bad classroom management&#8230;) And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}