August 20, 2008
Please humor me in a ten second (I swear to God, I just timed it), two question, yes/no survey I’ve set up here on adolescent psychology training for teachers. I’m percolating on whether educators of adolescents are getting enough training in this area. I sure didn’t. Did you?
Your responses are totally anonymous, even to me, and will never be used in the Russian crackdown on rebel independents. Feel free to Twitter/forward/publicize this link as well. The more responses, the more solid the data, etc etc.
More to come soon on this topic and others. The year gears up for me next week.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:39 am
I was a HS English teacher for 8 years, and am currently a school psychologist. I think the biggest benefit a future teacher could derive from a psych requirement would be from a behavioral psychology course, e.g. behavior analysis and/or support. As I was taking these courses in my grad program, I kept thinking to myself, “Hey! This seems an awful lot like what I call ‘decent classroom management’!”
August 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Are you interested in responses from teachers who have gone through alternative certification(i.e. Teach for America)?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
@Anne: absolutely. Looking forward to reading more on your blog. I was a Fulbright TA as well (Korea) and my sister-in-law was TFA in Arkansas. Let’s stay in touch. Those first two years are fiery, ain’t they?
August 24th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Thanks Dina- I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog and am looking forward to reading more this year. I’m hoping year two of teaching is slightly smoother than year one