A little advice for rookies
Ohio may finally be finding a way to clog up the brain drain – at least the one that siphons off so many of the state’s best and brightest young teachers.
According to the Ohio Department of Education, using veteran teachers to mentor rookies has helped Ohio to sharply cut the number of new teachers who quit within the first five years. But according to the department’s latest report, only 28 percent of Ohio’s new teachers are now leaving the profession after five years, compared to 46 percent nationwide.
Support, advice even just a sympathetic ear can help prevent the previous rates of burnout. All districts in Ohio are now required to have mentoring programs for first-year teachers.
It seems like such an obvious solution, we wonder why it wasn’t thought of sooner. Other states contributing to that 46 percent national burnout/dropout average should take note.
posted by David Wells at 5:58 PM
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at 10:57 AM, January 03, 2008 
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at 11:23 AM, January 03, 2008 
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at 10:53 AM, January 05, 2008 
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Post a Comment*Jeff Canada (respected black who is an education activist) makes the following observation:
Poor Blacks who use vouchers to attend richer White schools are performing just as poorly academically in testing as those that remain in the “hood”. So his solution is the same Liberal mantra.....education needs more money.
What? If rich resourced White schools can't teach Black kids, how is more money for the "Black Schools" going to improve education? This logic makes no sense.
The basic fallacy is to conclude that funding more money for schools results in higher academic performance. The facts in the USA and internationally do not support this conclusion. The USA spends plenty per capita to teach and fund public education but is below average in performance, compared to all industrialize nations, including those nations far poorer in resources than the USA.
Our problem with declining education does not solely reside in the schools but resides in the break down of the family structure and parental demands on children to study and learn.
But Liberals prefer to look for the magic federal mandated and operated solution to fix education. The obvious statistical and rationale solution is focusing on poor families' parental impact and their current lack of discipline and demands on their poor children. This idea isn’t new. Bill Cosby even has the same message.
I know….I'm writing into the Liberal breeze of futility. They own the USA education system.
Most every school in the nation has something like these programs. It is called the "rookies" actually going to the "veterans" to ask questions or the "veterans" going to the "rookies" to check up on them, Praxis 3, internship, or whatever. If there is any difference, it is because the school districts in this area are hiring the cheaper teachers to save money, which means these teachers most likely aren't as good as the other candidates for that position, which means the districts aren't providing the best education to our kids. Also, in order to keep the cheaper teachers, the school districts are having to be more "hospitable" to these cheaper teachers, which means the districts are pressured more to not just provide but actually implement these mentor programs.
There is no difference or no new program; it may be called something else or packaged differently, but there is no new program. The only difference if anything is the schools are finally doing something that they are suppose to be doing. The thing is, a program like this is nothing compared to what they are suppose to be doing, namely teaching our kids.
Amen to Anon 10:57am.
Libs look to others for their personal answers in life.
Rather, the most reliable and available source for personal solutions resides within ourselves, with family support.
This formula for success has stood the test of human history. But it requires hard work and determination by individuals.
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