Comments on: Son, they shook http://jovanmiles.net/2009/12/01/son-they-shook/ iTeach Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nae http://jovanmiles.net/2009/12/01/son-they-shook/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Nae Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:20:58 +0000 http://jovanmiles.net/?p=582#comment-561 "Mike Jones" got it right. They are scared, but they are scared of the unknown. Realize we, as educators, are working with people who have doing "their thang" for YEARS! And here comes this new group who thinks they know a little bit of something and they don't know what to think? But when the same thing is not getting results, the old school don't feel like THEY need to change. "It's the kids", "they don't want to learn", "They just don't want to succeed". It's hard for someone who has been doing it like that for 30+ years to say "Hey, I might need to change something". Because the way they were raised, you stayed at the same job/school for your entire career.... you never changed! So the quickest thing to do is to resist and think badly upon those who feel as if change is needed. I told my mom (who taught for 20+ years at the same school) that we are now preparing kids for jobs that don't exist. And that is scary. But what I love about my job is that it is ever changing. I don't see the same thing everyday. I love it! Keep doing what you are doing! It is working... “Mike Jones” got it right. They are scared, but they are scared of the unknown. Realize we, as educators, are working with people who have doing “their thang” for YEARS! And here comes this new group who thinks they know a little bit of something and they don’t know what to think?

But when the same thing is not getting results, the old school don’t feel like THEY need to change. “It’s the kids”, “they don’t want to learn”, “They just don’t want to succeed”. It’s hard for someone who has been doing it like that for 30+ years to say “Hey, I might need to change something”. Because the way they were raised, you stayed at the same job/school for your entire career…. you never changed!

So the quickest thing to do is to resist and think badly upon those who feel as if change is needed. I told my mom (who taught for 20+ years at the same school) that we are now preparing kids for jobs that don’t exist. And that is scary. But what I love about my job is that it is ever changing. I don’t see the same thing everyday. I love it!

Keep doing what you are doing! It is working…

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