I hear you load and clear. I am a 43 year old looking for my first teaching job in Social Studies. All of my long term assignments have garnered me many positive comments from students and parents. Being told that a parent’s child actually enjoys History, when they never did before is exciting. The sad part, I can’t figure out why nobody has hired me yet. I get results, students to pay attention, and actually retain information after they leave a classroom beyond the next test. I have witnessed so many teachers that frame their class around memorizing names, dates, places and people. Not cause and effect, which is how Social Studies should be learned.
Read a book called ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ and you will get a great understanding about why schools are the way they are. Administrators don’t want students to take home information ad have their parents disagree, that will make them call the school, lets stay on bland things that will not make any waves, thats safe. Geeze! It really is frustrating.
Eric
