Good question. I get the same kind of thing at the university level. I do notice they do not have a strong work ethic, have poor academic and time management skills. I also notice that students may be working 30 to 40 hours a week and going to school full time. It is crazy. I think people are very stressed and OCD. I think the reasons vary from person to person, but it very demoralizing as a teacher educator when a student who is going to be an elementary classroom teacher says that they do not like to read or want to read and that they seldom read. I do think there is systemic problem in our culture that needs to be addressed. It is very complex and I hardly know where to begin, except to describe the types of low achieving students that want to be our future teachers. I normally don't like to get on a complaining bandwagon, but the problem is serious and real.
Diane
--- On Thu, 1/29/09, jjennifer west <jenniferjoycewest@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: jjennifer west <jenniferjoycewest@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [teacherartexchange] 21st Century Skills - Teaching for Artistic Behavior
> To: "TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group" <teacherartexchange@lists.pub.getty.edu>
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 1:31 AM
> So agreed. I try to do this, but honestly, I find a lot of
> my students so frustrating. I work in California with
> middle school students that range so far across the board
> academically and on the socio-economic spectrum. Most of my
> kids are LAZY and lack a lot of basic skills. Sometimes
> I'm not really sure what to do with them. I would love
> to give them more critical thinking activities, but they
> usually just stare blankly at me with glossed over looks and
> whine about how hard it is. Any thoughts on resources to
> help these "low" kids would be great (I have some
> more advanced classes that totally "get it" and we
> do great, but those are only 2 out of 5 classes).
>
> Thanks,
> Jen
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Judy Decker
> <jdecker4art@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Judy Decker <jdecker4art@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [teacherartexchange] 21st Century Skills -
> Teaching for Artistic Behavior
> > To: "TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group"
> <teacherartexchange@lists.pub.getty.edu>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 7:02 AM
> > Greetings Art Educators,
> >
> > Does your program focus on 21st Century Skills? Are
> you
> > preparing your
> > students for today's job market (or
> tomorrow's)?
> > Are you giving your students the answers -- or are you
> > teaching your
> > students how to find them? Our nation's emphasis
> on the
> > standardized
> > test is all so wrong - the emphasis is placed on
> > knowledge-knowledge-knowledge. Knowledge is so easy to
> > find. It is
> > just a click away. We need to teach our youth how to
> be
> > critical
> > thinkers - problem solvers. I am so very proud of my
> son,
> > Matthew. I
> > know I brag about him often on the lists (what do you
> > expect? --grin).
> > He got the job at Toyota (mechanical engineer) because
> of
> > his many
> > talents - not just because of his book smarts. He
> > wasn't
> > "top-of-the-class" in college, but he did
> well
> > (magna cum laude. We
> > never pushed him to be "summa"). He
> participated
> > in many arts' events
> > (student run theatre organization - which helped him
> to be
> > a great
> > communicator).
> >
> > Here is the site for 21st Century Skills:
> > http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ > >
> > Teaching for Artistic Behavior supports 21st Century
> > Skills:
> >
> http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/21stcenturyskills.html > >
> > If that link doesn't work - go to:
> > http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/index.html > > Click on 21st Century Skills in left menu
> >
> > Teaching for Artistic Behavior (or some form of Choice
> > Based Art) is
> > the only way to meet many of your curriculum
> standards.
> > Really look at
> > what you are supposed to be doing. I didn't
> > "discover" until late in
> > my teaching career what I was doing "wrong"
> (used
> > quotation marks on
> > purpose... I am not saying that what you are doing is
> > wrong). I
> > learned a LOT from reading Dr. Marvin Bartel's web
> > site.
> > http://www.goshen.edu/~marvinpb/MB_Home.htm > > http://www.bartelart.com/ > > I "met" Marvin on Getty list in 1998. I had
> to
> > sign up to a list serve
> > for a professional development class I was taking.
> There
> > wasn't any
> > relevant action on the required list, so I asked
> permission
> > to join
> > Getty list instead....and you know the rest. Here I am
> > today.
> >
> > Lots of TAB Presentations (and presentations that
> support
> > TAB) at NAEA
> > this year:
> >
> http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/NAEA%202009.html > > (if link doesn't work - click on link in menu on
> home
> > page)
> >
> > I am so jealous of all of you who get to go to NAEA.
> Share
> > some of the
> > "good stuff" you learn with the lists.
> Don't
> > share all of the secrets
> > or folks won't find a need to go themselves the
> > following year
> > (smile).
> >
> > Hmmm.... I seem to be a bit chatty today (chuckles)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Judy Decker
> >
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