What if MCPS administrators each had to substitute a certain number of days a year in actual MCPS classrooms? These same administrators often have time for out of state conferences and meetings. Wouldn't it be beneficial for MCPS administrators to actually spend time in MCPS classrooms to see the programs they oversee in action on a daily basis?
Why, that would be considered a heresy!
ReplyDeleteI think you devalue and underestimate the skills and training of a classroom teacher. A person may have good technology know how which makes him or her a skilled systems engineer but he/she would not know anything about how to manage a classroom of students or what it takes to actually teach them. The same could be said for an accountant, a recruiter, a payroll administrator. These "teachers for a day" would not know anything about the ebb and flow of the school and a day of instruction would be wasted for the students. Is that what you really want?
ReplyDeleteYou need to read the article that prompted this post. The Montgomery County Board of Education wants to put LESS qualified people in classrooms. They want no experience, no expertise and nothing about managing a classroom. An administrator would be leaps and bounds beyond a 19 year old.
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Our elected officials
ReplyDeleteLook out for our best
Picking teenage scholars
To teach the less adept.
I read that article but didn't see how your proposed solution would help. Not saying the BOE proposal is any better.
ReplyDeleteThe Board of Education claims they need more substitute teachers. Their "solution" is to put teenagers in classrooms as the teachers.
DeleteMy suggestion was to use already existing, paid, highly trained MCPS public school education staff to supplement existing substitute teachers.
Okay, I think I understand. You meant the number of educational specialists who are in nonschool-based positions represented by 162.1 in the chart, not the 1,270.1 which was the number highlighted. The other positions are not highly trained staff in education but I understand your comment as it relates to the educational specialists.
ReplyDeleteAgain, understand what is going on. The Montgomery County Board of Education wants to LOWER the standards for substitute teachers. They do NOT care if a sub has ANY education background. Zip is fine with them. Someone who actually works for MCPS already would be light years more qualified that someone who is 18 years old and has zero educational training. So back to the numbers - the thousands of administrative positions in MCPS contain way more qualified people than the Board of Education wants to put in classrooms.
DeleteThe numbers of administrative staff available to teach in the classroom may be overstated by the table above, because some of the people occupying those positions are in them because they're not allowed to have contact with students.
DeleteAbsolutely. Those are the people in the "dead principals and staff" office. The people that have been removed from schools and are out at Choke Cherry Dr. watching YouTube. But there are still a thousand other administrators that could take a few days a year to work as a substitute teacher.
DeleteIt sounds like where they produce Dark Shadows.
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