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NCLB Becoming A Teacher In Research Paper

That work is the work of connecting personally and passionately, intimately and individually, with teaching real children in real time. It is enduring work that begins when a teacher enters the classroom for the first time and ends only when exiting on that last day.

"Connecting personally with teaching" is an odd phrase for today's classroom. Each day typically progresses in such a skill-jammed, test-locked, other-directed format that teachers have little room for experiencing satisfaction or for having constructive thoughts about their work.

The average classroom is a pressure cooker crammed with so many shoulds, oughts,...

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The long-term consequences of viewing teachers largely as workers to give feet to the ideas of others are obvious.
But there is an interesting question behind the problem, the question of whether creative teaching can coexist with scripted teaching. At least for the next few years, if teachers are to get personal about teaching, they will have to do so in connection with a script. Is this possible? Can teachers build a personal niche in the uptight world of teaching to the dictates of others?

There is no quick

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Bunting, C. (2007) Teachers get personal about teaching to survive NCLB, Education Digest, Vol. 72, Issue 5, pp. 12 -- 15

Chance, P. (2009) Learning and Behavior, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press

Eisele-Dyrli, K. (2010) Study finds impact of NCLB on art education generally negative, District Administration, Vol. 46, Issue 3, p. 18

Klein, A. & McNeil, M.; (2010) Administration unveils ESEA reauthorization blueprint, Education Week, Vol. 29, Issue 25
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