Comments on: Oakes and Lipton Chapter 12: Teaching to Change the World http://jdennis5.edublogs.org/2008/04/20/oakes-and-lipton-chapter-12-teaching-to-change-the-world/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:18:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: melaniepar http://jdennis5.edublogs.org/2008/04/20/oakes-and-lipton-chapter-12-teaching-to-change-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15 melaniepar Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:34:14 +0000 http://jdennis5.edublogs.org/2008/04/20/oakes-and-lipton-chapter-12-teaching-to-change-the-world/#comment-15 Hey Jacqueline! I feel that I was prepared as much as I could have been going into my first day of being a "real" teacher. I spent much time in classrooms in different grade levels while in college. I feel that our profession offers a small amount of scaffolding, but I definitely wouldn't say it's career-long. Teachers in our county have mentors for 3 years. (or is it even that long?) Our school used to have meetings/staff developments for new teachers, but that ended last year. Sometimes I think mentorships at our school are jokes. People don't meet with their mentee or they feel uncomfortable giving suggestions. Some are given 1/2 day during the entire year to observe their mentee to see how they're doing. I wonder if there are any schools in the country that have career-long scaffolding? Hey Jacqueline! I feel that I was prepared as much as I could have been going into my first day of being a “real” teacher. I spent much time in classrooms in different grade levels while in college. I feel that our profession offers a small amount of scaffolding, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s career-long. Teachers in our county have mentors for 3 years. (or is it even that long?) Our school used to have meetings/staff developments for new teachers, but that ended last year. Sometimes I think mentorships at our school are jokes. People don’t meet with their mentee or they feel uncomfortable giving suggestions. Some are given 1/2 day during the entire year to observe their mentee to see how they’re doing. I wonder if there are any schools in the country that have career-long scaffolding?

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