Posted on 01/09/2021 6:10:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
All teachers in Illinois would be required to “be aware of the effects of power and privilege and the need for social advocacy and social action …” under the “Systems of Oppression” standard. Teachers would additionally be required to “implement and integrate the wide spectrum of fluidity in identities in the curriculum.” Further, they would be required to “assess how their biases and perceptions affect their teaching practice and how they access tools to mitigate their own behavior” including on such concepts as “unearned privilege.”
These standards ignore what is most important for our students — that is, increasing the quality of education — and instead force onto teachers a singular view for some of our country’s most-heavily debated topics that they are then expected to carry forth into the classroom.
Consider that in 2019, only 37% of Illinois third graders could demonstrate grade-level proficiency in English-language arts and only 41% could demonstrate grade-level proficiency in math. In this same year, the Illinois General Assembly eliminated the basic skills test required for all teachers in Illinois, which assessed basic content understanding and application of core academic areas such as math and literacy.
With these new proposed standards in place, a teacher in Illinois will need not demonstrate competency in their basic knowledge of academic material but will have to demonstrate knowledge in concepts that are not only contentious but push an overtly political ideology outside the mainstream of the social and cultural debate.
As a Black Illinoisian who cares about the education of our children today, I am deeply concerned with these proposed standards. Even if well-intentioned, these standards impose one view of our culture and politics. They strip teacher candidates of a presumption of good faith intent and distract from the primary goal of providing a basic quality education
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They are forcing this crap on us at the media school I teach at online in the Bay Area through required and mandatory Continuing Education webinars.
No such bullshiite exists in the school in Singapore I teach at. Amazing that, right?
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