Over the years, I have increasingly leaned in toward my children, and in so doing, I hope, instilled in a generation of rabbis, cantors and educators realistic expectations about their own futures as professionals and family members.
This is just one of the many challenges as an Indigenous educator – the expectation that because you are Indigenous, you will teach the "Indigenous stuff" even if we are trained and talented in other areas.
It's time that parents and educators examine the expectations and demands on our children before they completely burn out.
Asked about the program, Chancellor Harold O. Levy said yesterday that there was a "sound educational basis for summer school," but he urged parents and educators to have realistic expectations.
Although many Mexican-Americans do well, too many do not pursue education because they attend low-quality schools or receive the brunt of negative expectations by educators.
I disagree that behavioral educators are lowering their expectations.
Fierce expectations from educators; the massive mental and physical upheaval of being an adolescent; peer pressure, or simple curiosity can make drugs a tempting prospect.
Teachers, on the other hand, make a competitive starting salary, but typically have to wait close to 20 years — or longer — to earn the upper middle class incomes that comport with our high expectations of educators as knowledge workers.
We argue that using an epistemological approach, i.e. using the theory of knowledge, to support the design of the learning resource, is key to enabling the educator to fulfil these expectations.
Training educators and education staff how to take a stance to become anti-racist will assist to remove the shadow of paternalism, strengthen student ability, and lift teacher and system expectations of students.
But even some of them fear that educators and politicians have unrealistic expectations.
