Day: February 11, 2013

The 2009  National Teacher of the Year Anthony Mullen’s famous blog post, “Teachers Should Be Seen and Not Heard” is a must-read for everyone who has children or who remotely has anything to do with education, including hiring recent graduates.   After listening to noneducators bloviate about schools and teaching without once asking for his opinion, he was finally asked what he thought. He offered the following opinion:

I am a fly on the wall sitting at a table.

 

Seated at a round table are three state governors, one state senator, a Harvard professor and author, and a strange little man who assumes the role of group moderator. The strange little man asks the group to talk about their experiences at the education conference. The ex governor from the South begins to talk about how the traditional school model is not working and the problem of too many teachers who do not understand what they teach. Teachers, he complains, are not prepared to teach in 21st century classrooms because they possess, in his words, “only 20th century skills.” He does not provide specific examples or elaborate upon his theory but the other guests at the table nod their heads in agreement.

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