There’s a huge shortage of teachers in Illinois and Missouri. Ten years ago, the School of Education added a ton of fluff courses to the program, which means students who want to become teachers have to tack two whole years to their BA to get teacher certification. The program is dying because there are no students in it.
The state government and the university administration pressured the School of Education to revise their program. The revision took two years. And resulted in the School of Education adding 10 courses, which means a full extra year, to the program. Which already has no students because it’s too long.
We are now begging them to at least go back to the way it was before these 10 additional fluff courses. It’s hard because they put the words “diversity” and “equity” into the course titles, and nobody is crazy enough openly to be against diversity.
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It doesn’t help that the teachers in the department are also retarded. When I was in an education program they taught literally nothing in terms of pedagogy, nor any of the actual theories. I wouldn’t have known anything about Maslow or B.F. Skinner if another teacher in another department had told me about them in conversation. The DEI Class they had us take would have actually been interesting if the teacher actually tought anything beyond “white people are racist”
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I confirm. It’s all completely retarded.
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