The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Monday, April 20, 2009

NYTimes forum: "Teaching no fallback career"

Posted Sunday in the opinion section of The New York Times' website, a collection of short pieces on midcareer classroom teachers and their expectations. Not

"What does it take to become a teacher," ask the Times' editors, "let alone a good one?"

Answers from:
Pam Grossman, professor of education
Patrick Welsh, teacher
Tom Moore, teacher
Michael Podgursky, economist
Kenneth J. Bernstein, teacher and blogger.
And 85 comments (as of 11 a.m. CDT on Monday). Some of the forum comments are more incisive that the experts' thoughts.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.