idly thinking about how educational disasters like 3-cueing are less and less likely as time goes on because more and more teachers realize they have access to pedagogical research that isn't cherry-picked by the board of an education-the-field convention or a continuing education curriculum frozen in the bleeding edge of like 2003
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Really funky to me that US teachers usually get at minimum a 4-year degree with at least a minor in something other than education, yet societally we seem to treat them as incapable babysitters with no agency. Like, the actual process for being a teacher is pretty similar to getting a engineer-in-training license (4 years of undergrad with a specific focus and required classes, state level exam and license) but we don't let baby civil engineers go "idk dude I went to this symposium and someone pitched me on this great new truss design so it's basically their fault that the bridge collapsed."
Thinking back, maybe this starts all the way in undergrad -- I know my math degree program had a mandatory senior seminar that taught basic research skills (go find and summarize a paper for the class, write a 5 minute presentation for laypeople and test it on prospective students, write up a mathematical idea as though you were writing the paper on it, etc.) that the education-math dual majors and no one else were allowed (perhaps even encouraged) to skip in favor of any other math credit
if they seem like babysitters, paying them the same wages looks less bad.
but it's more that now it's more possible than ever to discover the tools to break the top down control loop education currently has and actually look at the things we've learned from it, instead of it being a morass of consultants
Very true. As a countervailing force to the increased availability of primary evidence about teaching, though, I also worry that autodidacts who would leverage that research are getting scared away from the field because the same ability to do independent research will inform you it's an underpaid and underappreciated job
yep :/
similarly, it selects for people with high end second incomes, or a normal range second income if you don't have kids. which Isn't Great.
and the ones who would have teached often now arent reaching people below 16 or so because kids don't buy random consumer goods from sponsored ad buys
Oh, gods, I had a teacher in HS from the high/second income category (in particular, the "husband is local gentry" subtype) teaching, of all things, health/sex ed class. She wound up trying to get us to sell our parents on buying a $2000 pseudoscience box that would save you from anxiety, depression, and maybe cancer by measuring your heart rate and telling you to chill out
I remember back in high school I had an economics and personal finance class with two teachers, and distinctly remember two similar conversations: one where the teacher of the econ half was talking about how they'd make more money as a cashier at Trader Joe's, and another where the teacher of the personal finance half told her that the solution to money troubles was to buy a house and be a landlord like she was