AshG
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Nobody considers university level as teachers.
When you say teachers, we think K-12.
There is a huge jump between a teacher and a professor. I may have not agreed with many of my professors, even the adjuncts, but never did I think any of them were complete morons.
Most of my high school teachers though were idiots who were simply teachers because they didn’t have the ability to do anything else.
Two of my best friends in the world are a nuclear engineer and an English professor at OSU and both can give each other a run for their money intellectually.
At your level you aren’t really teaching, you are perfecting.
I think I've managed to confuse things? That's most likely the situation. There are days I can't stand writing.
What I'm trying to do is drive into teacher education programs and connect them to the perception of K-12 teachers. Now that I'm in charge of preparing and sending forth educators into the K-12 ranks, I sit back and scratch my head at how an idiot can make it through the gauntlet we've put in place.
Either the Praxis II test sequence, the evaluatory rubric and all 30 pages it contains, or observations of teaching by supervisors should keep idiots from joining the ranks. I know I've stopped a few and helped them "discover" a new path.