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High Tech, Higher Learning: A School Grows Its Own Teachers
This school has its own master's plan for developing the educators it needs. More to this story.
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Release Date: 12/03/2008
Running Time: 5 min.
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Produced and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Written by
- Carl Bidleman
Coordinating Producer
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Editor
- Karen Sutherland
Production Assistants
- Doug Keely
- Neil Tan
Camera Crew
- Rob Weller
- Darren Kawasaki
Narrator
- Michael Pritchard
- © 2008
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Science lab safety
Am disturbed that the science teacher in the video about High Tech High is not practicing accepted science safety procedures for students working in a lab setting. In particular, splash rather than impact goggles should be worn ALL THE TIME by students as they work with chemicals. Also, there is an accepted way to smell any material, wafting the odor towards the nostrils. Who mentors this teacher?
yeah, I fully support Claudia! it's impossible for a teacher to conduct in this way! He hsould feel some responsibility for his students! he's incompetent a little bit, to my mind
Credentialing Teachers
I think it is an amazing paradigm shift; credentialing teachers in an actual school! I have long thought that teacher education needs an overhaul like this one demonstrates. Do the job, then learn the theory; instead of the usual approach where you first learn theory and at the end are asked to go out and apply what you have learned.
The place where teachers REALLY learn to teach is in their first classroom with real students, not in college lectures on theories of learning and teaching.