Educational psychologist Lee Shulman compared teaching to medicine. He noted that teachers have classrooms of 25-35 students, whereas doctors treat only a single patient at a time. Even when working with a reading group of 6-8 students, teachers are overseeing the decoding skills, comprehension, word attack, performance and engagement of those students while simultaneously keeping tabs on the learning of the other two dozen students in the room. The only time a doctor could possibly encounter a situation of comparable complexity is in an emergency room during a natural disaster. Shulman concluded that classroom teaching “is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced and frightening activity that our species has ever invented”. From an article we read during our Professional Development Day! No wonder Im always so exhausted after work!
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:35:38 +0000
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