Teach for America Testimony
There is a school board meeting this evening when it will be decided by the directors if they will accept the Broad trained superintendent’s proposal to hire Teach for America, Inc recruits.
Below is the testimony that I would like to give. Unfortunately, each person has only three minutes to speak so this will get cut down a bit.
Dora
I am here to provide testimony regarding Teach for America, Inc. and as Jim Horn in Schools Matter describes it, the “anti preparation program”.
Within the five weeks of preparation of a TFA, Inc. recruit, to paraphrase Mr. Horn, where does the study occur of child development, educational psychology, sociology, philosophy and history, learning science, cognitive science, curriculum theory and practice along with the development of research skills, classroom management, and the study of human dynamics that is part of the education of a teacher, at least a teacher who I want and expect teaching in my daughter’s school?
And what about the IEP students who are mainstreamed into the general student population? Does TFA, Inc. in their five week program provide adequate training to handle those students as well the remaining students in a