I taught school for 17 years and never suffered total teacher burnout. There were times within a school year when I felt overwhelmed, insecure, overworked, and frustrated, but thank God for fall break, report card break, in-service meetings, winter, spring, and summer breaks. See Teacher Burnout study. When you have to spend more time to discipline children, who even wants to teach?
The Consortium on Chicago School Research (University of Chicago) reports "that about 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children. In the typical Chicago elementary school, 51 percent of the teachers working in 2002 had left four years later, while the typical high school had seen 54 percent leave by 2006." See article.
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topcop said:
GML ... I think this goes to show that some people who are teaching today don't understand the stress and commitment it takes to be a teacher. It's one of the most difficult and rewarding jobs in our society.
I think this is more of a teacher issue. This is not an institutional issue within CPS. Even if there are some major problems within CPS right now.
I could be wrong, but that's my opinion.
Viniciusdm said:
Daley is a failure as an education leader. His dysfunctional leadership is stamped on CPS. Let us stop the lies coming out of City Hall and CPS. They make up things as they go along. Chicago, we can judge how CPS is working or not working to improve the building of healthy professional communities in each school by reading the watershed report published this year by the National Staff Development Council: United States Is Substantially Behind Other Nations in Providing Teacher Professional Development That Improves Student Learning; Report Identifies Practices that Work http://www.srnleads.org/resources/publications/nsdc.html
Daley and Huberman cannot hide behind their "innovative" never explained actions. We have the benchmarks to judge them based on the best practices from around the world. We need to support our school professional communities with a longer instructional day and time built into the day for schools as an organization to meet and plan. Money should be wisely spent on what counts, not smoke and mirrors.
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