A Classroom Without Teachers, Then What?
Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.
David Greene is a former 38-year Social Studies teacher, mentor, and coach. After teaching, he supervised new teachers while working for Fordham University. Now he is a partner in the BIGS Project, a program to help high school and college students learn the life skills necessary to choose, get, and do a great job.
He is the author of Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks and former Treasurer of Save Our Schools. His blogs have appeared in Diane Ravitch’s website, Education Weekly, US News and World Report and the Washington Post. He wrote the most responded-to Sunday Dialogue letter in the New York Times entitled, “A Talent for Teaching.” He has also appeared on a TV documentary: The growing movement against Teach for America. You can visit David Greene’s blog on Wordpress or follow him on Twitter
Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.
Bernard Kellie and David Green discuss the absence of a one-size-fits-all instructional manual or playbook for classroom teaching.
In David Greene’s latest article, he discusses the wealthy, fake education reform philanthropists, including the Broad and Walton Foundations.
Last spring Katie Benmar wrote an editorial, My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective, in Education Week. David Greene, a regular contributor for edCircuit, stumbled upon Benmar’s op-ed and wanted to provide his perspective as an educator.
David Greene spoke as part of a panel in Philadelphia about media and messaging in education and his perspective on education reformers.
Too many parents, teachers, and school administrators falsely think that by putting children in high achieving science programs, music lessons, or preparing them for AP or SAT exams from the time they are 12 years old to get them into the most prestigious colleges, will create masters of creativity.