good read from All Kinds Of Minds blog about teachers believing in their abilities as teachers but not believing in the abilities of their students
April 21, 2010
Survey Reveals a New Achievement Gap
I find the study to reflect real life in our schools. I am always amazed that general ed teachers believe they have the skills to teach kids of all abilities. And even if they secretly do not believe in themselves, they are not open to saying to administration that they do not feel confident in their abilities to teach certain kids. I wish more teachers would ask for more help - more training, more resources to allow them to teach all kinds of minds. And perhaps our administrations need to face reality that not all teachers are capable of teaching all kinds of minds. Instead, some teachers lose hope in our kids. They secretly believe that our kids won’t succeed in school and life and they lower their expectations of themselves as teachers and of our kids as students. And when this happens, we all lose.
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