My art teacher at school. If there was anyone who influenced me at a young age and formed ...
Reading _Who is the
ideal teacher?
Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel
- According to Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel there is a debate as to wether the personal qualities of a teacher should be considered along with their pedagogical skill in delivering content.
- The comparison of beginning teachers and students of education is interesting as often there are similarities to the student teachers I have mentored and the young teachers who turn up at work trying to make a start.
- I like the historical references, Socrates, Plato, Friere etal. So many times we have Students coming in wangting to be the sage, all knowing art student.
- Lamn (1972,2000) cited in Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel prototypes, we see this so often in schools, The teacher as a provider of Culture, this seems so very true and needed in my position as a boys art teacher in a non selective school.
- This is so true in my case.
- According to Musgrove and Taylor (1972) there are 5 characteristics, 1, personality, 2, discipline 3, teaching methods, 4, teacher behaviour in classroom, 5 order and organisation.
- My situation certainly supports this,
however, due to the very nature of how disorganised our organisation can
be, and the failure of leadership, the personality of the teacher puts all
others out of perspective, I often tell the teachers in my care ; due to
the challenges we face we often have to teach by a cult of personality and
a will to power. The male machismo must be understood. And sometimes the
culture becomes perverted and broken.
- cited
Arieli (1995) Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel 2007. Discusses the personal
qualities of which teachers are received and judged. In my position it can not be more true, the Christian ethics used
to control teacher behaviour.
- In every Independent school I have
worked in has had to acknowledge
incidents of paedophilia, due to current and ongoing legal actions against
members of a religious order were previous members of teaching staff.
- In 2012 a
- A good friend and college was asked to
resign from an assistant principle position and leave the school as he was
having an affair with a members of staff ex wife.
- A friend is currently fighting
alcoholism, bulimia and self
harming behaviour, she has asked her solicitor to stop the principle from
exceeding their concern. She is failing professionally and is holding on
to her job by a thread, If the school knew of her true situation they
would remove her from the classroom.
- The
teacher according to Feiman –nemser (1990) 5 orientations of teacher
education.
Yes the teacher is the centre of the personal /traditional
approach. The critical approach yes we critique and emancipate, technical
knowledge, crafts man and technological exploration, Academic teacher as
academic leader.
Yes we are great at
those things, however, ou younger teachers lack some of the technical knowledge
when it comes from art, they lack the craftsmanship due to the post-modern art
practice.
The idea of
educational academic leader is high within our organisation, either from
social/ ambitious climbing or to get out of the organisation due to
meretricious courses study etc, as a way of getting out of challenging
situation, others stick to the old ways
and becomes dinosaurs.
The idea of a social mission, this is one of the four
principles for the ideal teacher,
- Academic knowledge
- social mission
- development of the individual
- critical thought of the personality at the centre of the situation.
- We are an Edmund rice school who mission is clear and central, however, those who are catholic and those are not still play a part.
- I am not catholic, however, my role is central, I want to do all those things, we stereotypically we think we do.
Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel discuss the notion as respect for
the individual student as part of the
core knowledge as an individual teacher, yes
we do this well, as part of our mission, yes all care, its not a sterile
environment, we rely on a form of discipline that is report based, you hear
‘come on mate’ all the time.
Interestingly is the
notion of the natural ability of teachers as identified within student
teachers?
Yes I believe that
there exists a natural ability, as a communicator it can be a façade that masks
areas of bad teaching, I have seen art teachers who are amazing intuitive
communicators and can to some extent teach well. But there exists a level of
teaching such as HSC year 12 exam preparations that enthusiasm and charisma can
not help.
Sarah Arnon Nrit Reichel 2005. conclude that there is not a
single version or predominately one character of the ideal teacher.
The classify personality characteristics and professional
knowledge as two great perceptions about the ideal teacher.
The Post Modern idea of personalised empathetic teacher in
line with Noddings (1999) and Bosworth (1995) ideal teacher caring and doing
what Dewey recommended in extremes now seen in special schools.
This is what my school
is, it does this at the detriment to the majority, we are so focused on the
individual we are almost our own version of the gen Y stereotype.
What I find very
interesting is the loss of prestige being observed in line with a teacher
losing the role of cultural socialising agent, the wealth of all knowledge and
morals, now just a post modern relativity.
Another issue of the loss of social values in the ideal
image is reflected in the growth of the private sector. The Harry Potter fetishisation
of education commented by
Germaine Greer on ABC TV in 2012, no interest in pedagogy but in the image the
ideal product. We see this in the way
parents disengage with the school community after the middle school years, we
see parents turn up with sons looking immaculate, in the Toorak tractor, its
all image show, desperate housewives. All I see is parents signing up for school.
but as soon as they don’t get their way and the school says they cant do it,
yese we can, its my choice, don’t tell my son what to do!
The Catholic system has replaced the
values of what in my day was comprehensive education., the church has
lost its Sunday church and the catholic school has taken that role of church.
I agree with the paper
Yes student
teachers are completely unaware of the knowledge they don’t have and beginning
teachers are in awe of those teachers with the knowledge competence and
experience.
That
personality thing keeps coming up again. Kagan1992, Peled1995, personality.
Mr D.
Terrible on
academics big on pastoral care,
Like DEE At Kinross
Wolaroi, I made $5.00 an hour . coach
cadets, teach, boarding..
The most
important issue for me is raised by the author’s comment; if students of
education don’t get the concept or illustration of them being the instrument of
change, it will not be part of their own pedagogical arsenal.
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