This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty re... more This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty regarding their initiative and abilities. Faculty tended to agree that students are engaged in class, but more specific skills and attitudes needed to perform successfully in college are not as apparent to them. Around half of faculty respondents with at least 10 years experience in higher education agreed these skills and abilities are declining. Emergent themes from comments suggest faculty believe students' skills and work ethic have declined while their sense of entitlement (e.g., to high grades) has increased. Comments also suggest faculty believe the decline is a result of a lack of preparation in basic skills from secondary school, the overall culture and politics of secondary education, students' unrealistic perceptions of the expectations in higher education, and students' active lifestyles outside of classes.
Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster... more Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity as desegregation consent decrees are being lifted. One of Chicago's selective enrollment high schools drafted parents, educators, administrators, and community representatives to address its own diversity concerns and to examine the barriers to high-quality educational opportunities district-wide. As a result, this school began a pilot program that explored opportunities for bolstering the recruitment and nurturing the success of low income and minority students, and these efforts eventually contributed to policy changes in the overall district. The authors describe the program's development and implementation and suggest it as one model for closing the opportunity gap.
Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster... more Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity as desegregation consent decrees are being lifted. One of Chicago's selective enrollment high schools drafted parents, educators, administrators, and community representatives to address its own diversity concerns and to examine the barriers to high-quality educational opportunities district-wide. As a result, this school began a pilot program that explored opportunities for bolstering the recruitment and nurturing the success of low income and minority students, and these efforts eventually contributed to policy changes in the overall district. The authors describe the program's development and implementation and suggest it as one model for closing the " opportunity gap. "
This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty re... more This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty regarding their initiative and abilities. Faculty tended to agree that students are engaged in class, but more specific skills and attitudes needed to perform successfully in college are not as apparent to them. Around half of faculty respondents with at least 10 years experience in higher education agreed these skills and abilities are declining. Emergent themes from comments suggest faculty believe students' skills and work ethic have declined while their sense of entitlement (e.g., to high grades) has increased. Comments also suggest faculty believe the decline is a result of a lack of preparation in basic skills from secondary school, the overall culture and politics of secondary education, students' unrealistic perceptions of the expectations in higher education, and students' active lifestyles outside of classes.
This paper describes the struggles of a teacher educator to acknowledge and honor her own liberal... more This paper describes the struggles of a teacher educator to acknowledge and honor her own liberal bias along with her students' more conservative perspectives as these emerge in an education law class for preservice teachers. It illustrates the author's ongoing transition from rationalization to reflection, as she considers both her students' responses to class assignments on speech and expression rights and end-of-course evaluations, and reflects on the possibility that generational and experiential differences, rather than " resistance, " may be behind students' reactions. The author concludes that transparency on the part of the teacher educator is critical to allow (re)consideration of our beliefs in more reflective ways.
While there is ample evidence that the K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse a... more While there is ample evidence that the K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse and the teacher workforce is not, very little literature addresses the specific problems rural teacher education programs may experience attempting to meet the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) diversity standard. A 2005 NCATE-sponsored survey found that an unknown number of respondents indicated difficulty in meeting the requirements of the standard and that "geographically isolated" programs were especially affected. The existing research that targets rural programs tends to describe specific practices. As NCATE and TEAC, the two major teacher education accreditation programs, move toward consolidation, revisiting the expectations regarding diversity is critical.
... Litke's (2009) account of teens' use of afterschool program... more ... Litke's (2009) account of teens' use of afterschool programs, After the Bell Rings: Student Perceptions of After-School. Litke wanted to ... Stephanie Stecz (2009), in What Happens When Eighth Graders Become the Teachers? details her own evolving process of understanding ...
... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) WALTER FEINBERC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham... more ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) WALTER FEINBERC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004) PAUL KELLEHER, Trinity ... Society for the Study of Education SARAH ARCHIBALD, Wisconsin Center for Education Research JAMES CIBULKA, University of ...
The dynamics of the teacher-researcher relationship-whether embodied in a real time school inquir... more The dynamics of the teacher-researcher relationship-whether embodied in a real time school inquiry or in a writer-reader connection through a piece of literature-are complex and have a significant impact on the meaningful transmission of knowledge between researchers and practitioners. Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that teachers have a belief system that can be resistant to thinking differently; however, researchers contribute to underlying tensions when they do not pay sufficient attention to the needs of the schools and teachers they study, speak and write in researcher language, or leave the work of professional development to education bureaucrats. This article gives voice to novice and veteran teachers as they talk about the effects of research and researchers on their practice and the obstacles that prevent stronger connections. Teachers' expectations for a mutually respectful professional learning relationship
Teaching social foundations of education: …, Jan 1, 2005
A new libertarianism has developed on the right, a point of view hostile to social spending and i... more A new libertarianism has developed on the right, a point of view hostile to social spending and inimical to proposals for social justice and a welfare state. Radical critiques of public education have subsided as financial support has decreased. Schools are being directed ...
This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty re... more This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty regarding their initiative and abilities. Faculty tended to agree that students are engaged in class, but more specific skills and attitudes needed to perform successfully in college are not as apparent to them. Around half of faculty respondents with at least 10 years experience in higher education agreed these skills and abilities are declining. Emergent themes from comments suggest faculty believe students' skills and work ethic have declined while their sense of entitlement (e.g., to high grades) has increased. Comments also suggest faculty believe the decline is a result of a lack of preparation in basic skills from secondary school, the overall culture and politics of secondary education, students' unrealistic perceptions of the expectations in higher education, and students' active lifestyles outside of classes.
Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster... more Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity as desegregation consent decrees are being lifted. One of Chicago's selective enrollment high schools drafted parents, educators, administrators, and community representatives to address its own diversity concerns and to examine the barriers to high-quality educational opportunities district-wide. As a result, this school began a pilot program that explored opportunities for bolstering the recruitment and nurturing the success of low income and minority students, and these efforts eventually contributed to policy changes in the overall district. The authors describe the program's development and implementation and suggest it as one model for closing the opportunity gap.
Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster... more Chicago Public Schools and school districts throughout the country are seeking new ways to foster racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity as desegregation consent decrees are being lifted. One of Chicago's selective enrollment high schools drafted parents, educators, administrators, and community representatives to address its own diversity concerns and to examine the barriers to high-quality educational opportunities district-wide. As a result, this school began a pilot program that explored opportunities for bolstering the recruitment and nurturing the success of low income and minority students, and these efforts eventually contributed to policy changes in the overall district. The authors describe the program's development and implementation and suggest it as one model for closing the " opportunity gap. "
This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty re... more This pilot study explored how undergraduate students are perceived by higher education faculty regarding their initiative and abilities. Faculty tended to agree that students are engaged in class, but more specific skills and attitudes needed to perform successfully in college are not as apparent to them. Around half of faculty respondents with at least 10 years experience in higher education agreed these skills and abilities are declining. Emergent themes from comments suggest faculty believe students' skills and work ethic have declined while their sense of entitlement (e.g., to high grades) has increased. Comments also suggest faculty believe the decline is a result of a lack of preparation in basic skills from secondary school, the overall culture and politics of secondary education, students' unrealistic perceptions of the expectations in higher education, and students' active lifestyles outside of classes.
This paper describes the struggles of a teacher educator to acknowledge and honor her own liberal... more This paper describes the struggles of a teacher educator to acknowledge and honor her own liberal bias along with her students' more conservative perspectives as these emerge in an education law class for preservice teachers. It illustrates the author's ongoing transition from rationalization to reflection, as she considers both her students' responses to class assignments on speech and expression rights and end-of-course evaluations, and reflects on the possibility that generational and experiential differences, rather than " resistance, " may be behind students' reactions. The author concludes that transparency on the part of the teacher educator is critical to allow (re)consideration of our beliefs in more reflective ways.
While there is ample evidence that the K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse a... more While there is ample evidence that the K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse and the teacher workforce is not, very little literature addresses the specific problems rural teacher education programs may experience attempting to meet the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) diversity standard. A 2005 NCATE-sponsored survey found that an unknown number of respondents indicated difficulty in meeting the requirements of the standard and that "geographically isolated" programs were especially affected. The existing research that targets rural programs tends to describe specific practices. As NCATE and TEAC, the two major teacher education accreditation programs, move toward consolidation, revisiting the expectations regarding diversity is critical.
... Litke's (2009) account of teens' use of afterschool program... more ... Litke's (2009) account of teens' use of afterschool programs, After the Bell Rings: Student Perceptions of After-School. Litke wanted to ... Stephanie Stecz (2009), in What Happens When Eighth Graders Become the Teachers? details her own evolving process of understanding ...
... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) WALTER FEINBERC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham... more ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) WALTER FEINBERC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004) PAUL KELLEHER, Trinity ... Society for the Study of Education SARAH ARCHIBALD, Wisconsin Center for Education Research JAMES CIBULKA, University of ...
The dynamics of the teacher-researcher relationship-whether embodied in a real time school inquir... more The dynamics of the teacher-researcher relationship-whether embodied in a real time school inquiry or in a writer-reader connection through a piece of literature-are complex and have a significant impact on the meaningful transmission of knowledge between researchers and practitioners. Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that teachers have a belief system that can be resistant to thinking differently; however, researchers contribute to underlying tensions when they do not pay sufficient attention to the needs of the schools and teachers they study, speak and write in researcher language, or leave the work of professional development to education bureaucrats. This article gives voice to novice and veteran teachers as they talk about the effects of research and researchers on their practice and the obstacles that prevent stronger connections. Teachers' expectations for a mutually respectful professional learning relationship
Teaching social foundations of education: …, Jan 1, 2005
A new libertarianism has developed on the right, a point of view hostile to social spending and i... more A new libertarianism has developed on the right, a point of view hostile to social spending and inimical to proposals for social justice and a welfare state. Radical critiques of public education have subsided as financial support has decreased. Schools are being directed ...
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