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Article: Teacher training: what's the best way?(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 27, 2009
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Byline: Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Chicago -- Johanna Klinsky remembers her teacher training ruefully.
She loved the theory she learned, but her only classroom experience was 10 weeks of student teaching, which did nothing to prepare her for the chaos she would encounter as a teacher in an inner-city Chicago school.
"It was pure hell," she remembers. "I was wildly unprepared." In the end, though, she became part of the 55 percent or so of teachers who stick with the profession beyond five years. "But I guarantee you those kids didn't learn a thing," Ms. Klinsky says.
These days, she works as a coach ...