The Annual State Survey Behavior With The Say Of Our Schools In The USA – Teaching Vocation
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 |Boarding Schools USA. I recently took a look at the document in Education Week – Quality Counts 2009. According to Education Week this is a series of annual document cards tracking state education policies & outcomes. It is a lengthy document, as most are, covering areas dealing with school finance, standards, assessments, & accountability, the teaching profession, k-12 achievement, & transitions & alignment to name a few.
According to this document South Carolina earned an A- (91.9), the highest & only A in the section for the Teaching Profession. This section has two sub-categories: accountability for quality, incentives & allocation, building & supporting capacity. As a teacher in South Carolina, I believe possibly that three of the reasons that this State scored highest is due to the push for their teachers to not only become highly qualified, but also for them to become outstanding in their field by taking & passing the National Boards. The National Board is an extensive check that takes from three to two years to complete. It requires writing ability, video taping of your work (fundamentally taping you teaching a class) & several other components demonstrating your abilities as a competent teacher. Two times you have done all the requirements, your information is reviewed by a board of teachers & administrators to see if you indeed meet the qualifications they are looking for. It is not the kind of check in which you get feedback if you do not pass. It is a pricey check, both in your time & money.
The document provides a map of the USA, in which you can click on your State & find out how it stacks up to the rest of the States. You can also generate reports by clicking on various tabs at the top of the map. According to this document the overall grade for schools in the USA averages a C (76.2). The overall K-12 achievement averaged at a D+ (69.4), the teaching profession overall averaged at a C (73.1), & standards, assessments, & accountability overall averaged at a B (83.6).
Plenty of of the school districts in South Carolina, offered their teachers a $100,000 bonus if they passed the National Board while teaching in South Carolina. The hitch to this money is that you must stay in South Carolina & the teaching profession for the next ten years (as the money is paid out over a ten year period). Of coursework, with the new cuts in education funding, plenty of of these teachers still receiving their payout for achieving the National Board status, may find they will no longer get whatever is left.
South Carolina has a high dropout rate, approximately 57%. This is something that I could not find in the document – Quality Counts 2009. This is not necessarily due to the teachers. I feel that much of the problem lies in how our schools are structured & what they do not offer for these at risk students.
I feel that if the teaching profession & students academic achievement levels are to improve across the country, they require to return to offering more educational tracks to meet the demands of our student population & the world overall. Teachers are only a tiny part of the equation. Students must be willing & open to learning. Schools must be willing to change whatever is necessary to help students accomplish the objective of graduating with some kind of diploma that will help them to be successful in life.
Years ago, plenty of schools had more then three track for education. You had college prep, business, vocational, & general education. College prep necessary that you maintain a definite GPA (or grade level) & that you would take more advanced classes in English, Math, the Sciences & sometimes History. Business meant that your focus was more on going in to the business world. You might take a quantity of the same classes as the College Prep students, but often you would take classes that reflected business ideas. Such as: booking, accounting, typing, computers, business English, etc. Vocational classes often placed you in general education English, Math, Science & History. But the strong emphasis’ was on some type of vocation. Such as: welding, auto mechanics, cosmetology, nursing, etc. Finally, for those students who did not pick a career path, or possibly were not able to because of various factors (disability, mentally challenged, etc.) they were often placed in a general curriculum education. This is not to say that they did not meet requirements, because like everyone else, they had definite requirements they had to meet in order to accomplish a State diploma.
According to this document 18 States received a D & three State received an F in the Teaching Profession. I think that if I had kids going to school in any of those States, I would be asking questions as to why they had a failing grade. Find more information about Top Boarding Schools here.
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