Comments on: Medicine and Education http://future.teacherleaders.org/2009/09/medicine-and-education/ Keepers of the Flame Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barbara Dunham http://future.teacherleaders.org/2009/09/medicine-and-education/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Barbara Dunham Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:50:52 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=32#comment-507 Hi, I have been reading about you. I am very interested in your work with online education. I am in my 27th year of teaching. I am a special ed teacher. In order to become highly qualified to teach elementary level math in a middle school I needed to either take 5 math courses or pass the middle school math PRAXIS. The fact that my last college level math class was more than 30 years ago at Grinnell College (in your state!), I knew that I needed to take 5 refresher math courses in order to even have a chance at passing the middle school math praxis. I did both....and passed all classes and the middle school math praxis! The unintended gift of this experience was getting first hand experience with on-line learning! WOW! I absolutely love it. By design it calibrates instruction perfectly with the learner. What is particularly powerful, as well, are the video lectures. What could I read in order to learn more about what is available to public schools in all curricula areas for K-12 online learning? Thank you. Barbara Dunham Cape Elizabeth, Maine Hi,
I have been reading about you. I am very interested in your work with online education.
I am in my 27th year of teaching. I am a special ed teacher. In order to become highly qualified to teach elementary level math in a middle school I needed to either take 5 math courses or pass the middle school math PRAXIS. The fact that my last college level math class was more than 30 years ago at Grinnell College (in your state!), I knew that I needed to take 5 refresher math courses in order to even have a chance at passing the middle school math praxis.

I did both….and passed all classes and the middle school math praxis!

The unintended gift of this experience was getting first hand experience with on-line learning! WOW! I absolutely love it. By design it calibrates instruction perfectly with the learner. What is particularly powerful, as well, are the video lectures. What could I read in order to learn more about what is available to public schools in all curricula areas for K-12 online learning?

Thank you.
Barbara Dunham
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

]]> By: Annette Romano http://future.teacherleaders.org/2009/09/medicine-and-education/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Annette Romano Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:16:50 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=32#comment-14 There's a lot of comparing that can be done between medicine and teaching. Recently New York's new Commissioner discussed with our union the need to change teacher preparation into a more clinical model by perhaps having residencies. I also heard a speaker say recently that education today is where medicine was in the 1920's . At least we now have standards for the profession. How else we we move forward? Thank you NBPTS. I believe we can learn a great deal from the medical field. In one of the best hospitals on one of the best floors, where I lived for about 5 weeks while my son was going through a bone marrow transplant, there was one nurse for every three children. There was a daily visit from the attending doctor, resident, nurse manager, and primary nurse who traveled from room to room during rounds with a computer on a cart. The rounds took 5 hours for 11 children. They worked seamlessly as a team with specialists and 2 other hospitals to provide the world's best care. So if we are to get to where the medical profession is, we need teacher leaders working with teachers and specialists and other institutions to provide the best education possible. Teachers will develop various areas of expertise and specialization as a chemo certified nurse is permitted to administer chemo. So will a teacher be certified to be an instructional coach, service learning coordinator, or mentor coordinator. What I found out was that doctors are important but nurses really are the key to your care. Just as teachers are the key to your education. P.S. My son is doing great. Thanks to a wonderful unrelated donor who is still anonymous. There’s a lot of comparing that can be done between medicine and teaching. Recently New York’s new Commissioner discussed with our union the need to change teacher preparation into a more clinical model by perhaps having residencies. I also heard a speaker say recently that education today is where medicine was in the 1920’s . At least we now have standards for the profession. How else we we move forward? Thank you NBPTS.

I believe we can learn a great deal from the medical field. In one of the best hospitals on one of the best floors, where I lived for about 5 weeks while my son was going through a bone marrow transplant, there was one nurse for every three children. There was a daily visit from the attending doctor, resident, nurse manager, and primary nurse who traveled from room to room during rounds with a computer on a cart. The rounds took 5 hours for 11 children. They worked seamlessly as a team with specialists and 2 other hospitals to provide the world’s best care.
So if we are to get to where the medical profession is, we need teacher leaders working with teachers and specialists and other institutions to provide the best education possible. Teachers will develop various areas of expertise and specialization as a chemo certified nurse is permitted to administer chemo. So will a teacher be certified to be an instructional coach, service learning coordinator, or mentor coordinator. What I found out was that doctors are important but nurses really are the key to your care. Just as teachers are the key to your education.

P.S. My son is doing great. Thanks to a wonderful unrelated donor who is still anonymous.

]]> By: J.M. Holland http://future.teacherleaders.org/2009/09/medicine-and-education/comment-page-1/#comment-12 J.M. Holland Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:20:35 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=32#comment-12 Excellent comment and post. What if we were able take that metaphor farther and become our own research hospitals. We could push practice forward as well as bring up new "residents". If we had a "crowd" mentality about how to educate kids we might be able meet their needs. Excellent comment and post. What if we were able take that metaphor farther and become our own research hospitals. We could push practice forward as well as bring up new “residents”. If we had a “crowd” mentality about how to educate kids we might be able meet their needs.

]]> By: Laurie http://future.teacherleaders.org/2009/09/medicine-and-education/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Laurie Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:10:22 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=32#comment-10 Shannon, What a sad but accurate comparison of our two professions!I too have seen the change in my doctor's practice in the past several years from one of spending time (both qualitative and quantitative) and recently feeling rushed and pressured to have all my concerns addressed. My colleagues and I are seeing changes too, and I worry about them. My teammates are all teaching two subjects every day, (each out of their certification area), and they are highly stressed feeling they aren't meeting their students' needs the way they'd like to. Our classes are full and if it weren't so sad we'd laugh, but there are days when they have to ask the kids which subject they are there for, because they can't always keep the schedule straight. Imagine going to a primary care physician who also had to be a pulmonary specialist because there wasn't enough money to pay for both doctors' salaries? Shannon,
What a sad but accurate comparison of our two professions!I too have seen the change in my doctor’s practice in the past several years from one of spending time (both qualitative and quantitative) and recently feeling rushed and pressured to have all my concerns addressed. My colleagues and I are seeing changes too, and I worry about them. My teammates are all teaching two subjects every day, (each out of their certification area), and they are highly stressed feeling they aren’t meeting their students’ needs the way they’d like to. Our classes are full and if it weren’t so sad we’d laugh, but there are days when they have to ask the kids which subject they are there for, because they can’t always keep the schedule straight. Imagine going to a primary care physician who also had to be a pulmonary specialist because there wasn’t enough money to pay for both doctors’ salaries?

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