Friday, March 11, 2011

Tom Vander Ark: Barriers to Innovation

A reader wrote about the challenges of teaching, “Most high school teachers have between 120 and 150 students who they see every day. The fact that people think this is an okay reality is beyond me. Who would take this job? If someone were to pay me $100,000 a year to go back to teaching high school English full time, I might consider it and then use $50K to hire people myself to help me in the classroom. It’s the shape of the job that makes it impossible.”
I believe the secondary teaching job, as defined today, is difficult with most teachers having lots of preps and big loads. Blended learning can help change this.
Click here to why I believe this. I also list the four federal barriers I believe are hurting innovation in education.

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