Great idea!! Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:55:19 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Subject: Re: a professor's reply
What about getting a retired teacher to volunteer? I'm newly retired (going into year two). I'd be thrilled if a district asked me to volunteer to mentor a new teacher. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherrie Sacharow" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:55:06 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Subject: Re: a professor's reply Could a College of Ed, then, through the energy of some faculty who was able, qualified, and willing- begin a teacher-ed or teacher newbie colloquium---and instructors, teaching veterans, specialists and generalists bond together to lift our profession from the deteriorating status it currently enjoys? Not possible in the life of this overemployed doctoral student, but one must dream...... Is there the energy to come together and voluntarily give the support, classroom management, day to day developmental planning and strategy to each other? How could such a gathering become manifest? This would be -like Kozol said- the teachers right here right now. I can go to my associate dean and talk about an adjunct academy in my own department. We are the only people who can shed light on the myriad factors contributing to the Johnnies' and Janeys' failures our government and the vox popular are so busy counting. Teachers may continue to be beaten, cowed, and scripted but some will be able to teach around the poison stem and still reach their students. Sounds like some of you are still doing the stuff that makes the day fly by for you and your students. Offering portals yet unviewed in serendipitous clusters based upon who's in the room AT THAT TIME! We can't solve poverty or the awful, entrenched segregation. The public's blame is due to politicians deflecting the rage at life in the thousands of acres of "'hoods" . The media publishes it because naughty teachers is salacious and makes Nielson ratings. Our only path- as I see it from an instructor's eye view in a community/state college, is to surmount and overcome the obstacle. Continue to write, to video, to publish, to discuss. I am serious about approaching my chair as to her support or guidance. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
