According to the report released Thursday, most schools provide an inefficient student teaching component -- the capstone portion of any educator's education: actual classroom experience.
Yet, there is already a portion of responsibilities that educators are obligated to complete during off-teaching time.
In the Teachers portion of the site, educators can find curricular materials, sorted by keywords, that include a real-time air quality activity, guides to performing scientific techniques such as the Ames assay, classroom role-playing scenarios such as the Hydroville Challenge project, and staff development units.
However, it was Pink's earlier work and the 11-page portion of Drive geared towards educators that caught the attention of teachers and community leaders when they invited him to participate in a recent event in Sarasota, Florida hosted by The Patterson Foundation.
City school officials scrambled to fix a glitch that posted sensitive scores -- a controversial portion of teacher evaluations that grades educators based on how their students performed on standardized tests -- to the Education Department's internal computer system, making each teacher's scores available to all city educators.
I challenge educators to forgo some portion of the content of their current curriculum and instead invest that time in teaching the practices of making meaning, attaining a deeper understanding, and feeding students' natural curiosity.
Continuous professional development of educators has to receive immediate attention.
The union argues that the educators, who pay only a portion of the full dues as a "fair share", are only paying the union for the costs of bargaining and negotiations.
In 2010 and 2011, they approved an estimated $112 million for local preschool programs, a good portion of which went to better training for early childhood educators.
