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Shaking Things Up
Graduate schools of education have been using the same drills, curricula, and ideas for years. Enter the Relay School of Education in New York City. Stemming from Teacher U, a “groundbreaking program that has operated in partnership with Hunter College” and informed by information gained from the work of three charter school management networks (Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First), RSE will allow the Teacher U program “to achieve its true vision and fullest expression as a pioneer in the preparation of the next generation of teachers.”
RSE’s first cohort of two-year graduate students started the program this summer. They are taught with an emphasis on practical instruction, and in order to earn their master’s degrees must demonstrate that their students have progressed at least one academic year. ““I can study Vygotsky later,” Tayo Adeeko told the New York Times, a 24-year-old third-grade teacher at Empower Charter School in Crown Heights. “Right now,” she added, “my kids need to learn how to read.””
Opposition to the new hands-on-on-your-first day approach upholds traditional learning that includes spending a lot of time on cognitive theory and educational philosophy. Lin Goodwin, the associate dean at Teachers College, thinks “that what that does is it dumbs down teaching, and takes us back a few steps, in terms of our struggle in the profession for teachers to be seen as professionals.”
However, by 2013 (the year Relay’s first class is set to graduate the program), the state of New York along with twenty-one other states will “begin holding all graduate students in education accountable for student learning in their classrooms before they can get their degrees, as at Teacher U and Relay.” New York and eight other states are also directing a program with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education “to reorganize teacher education around clinical practice rather than academic study.” David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, former dean of the Hunter College School of Education, and a founding member of Teacher U says, “We don’t think that all the wisdom is lodged in the education schools…The fundamental point is that we need people to think outside of the box, to shake things up a little bit.”
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Posted on: Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
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Tags: new teaching methods, new york times, online tutoring, RSE, schools of thought