Answer/Quote: “There is discouraging evidence that many beginning
teachers quickly abandon the practices advocated and modeled in their teacher
education programs at colleges and universities and regress to imitate the kind
of instruction that they experienced themselves as students, or conform to the
dominant model in schools where they feel great pressures to drill students for
performance on mandated tests. The trends would be less discouraging if the
newly minted teachers were imitating the examples of the great teachers they
had during their long ‘apprenticeship of observation,’ as Dan C. Lorrie called
it.” P. 94.
Comment:
Perhaps teacher-preparation courses
should emphasize the good characteristics of the “great” teachers they have had
during their “apprenticeship of observation.” RayS.
Title:
“Mentoring Matters.” Thomas M. McCann, Editor. English Journal (March 2012),
94-96.
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