Trovato su Facebook, condiviso more Friends: The author is Barbara Visicchio . I think that says exactly what they carry in our hearts, so many, in making class each morning ...
I go away because they cut that was my first teaching post.
I stand here because I love my job.
I go away because there is no paper to make photocopies for verification.
I stand here because my children have the right to learn.
I go away because there is nobody to clean the classrooms.
staying here because who does not have the money to buy books, at least be able to study on my notes.
I walk away before the school is falling apart around me.
I stand here because I want to explain to my students that it is a privilege to learn.
I go away because there is no room for me in a classroom with 30 students.
I stand here because I want to explain and re-explain to my students until all have not understood.
I go away because I can not accept that in a classroom there are three special needs teachers and zero support.
I stand here as the son of an immigrant in Italy hoping to find a better school than he had in his country.
I go away because I do not want risk at 60 years old to still be precarious.
I stand here because if one day the school will be better, will rejoice to see my children go there.
... I would be very happy of course. But the promise of such a phantasmagorical increase my motivation to work better?
No. I do not work for the money. Work because I like teenagers, I like my subjects, and I like to teach. The salary simply allows me to work: but not the reason I work for, and certainly there is no proportionality between what they pay me and how I work.
Therefore, it is not intending few euro more you would get myself a better job. Who does it, offends me.
I do not know if it work good or bad ... probably the quality of my work is there in the middle somewhere, but certainly the best work I am capable of! And I do it because I enjoy it, or to show the kids something nice, or simply for love. Scegliete.Se a pinch I would pay more, or more, or disproportionately more ... I would work just as work now, because I can not do better! Clear: with experience and study, I hope to learn to work better in the future. But this has nothing to do with money. In this video
(there are also subtitles in Italian) Dan Pink explains why it is widely demonstrated (min 9:12 and following) that the proportionality between reward money offered and the expected job performance is obtained only for the most basic tasks and materials. As soon as you switch to tasks that require a minimal involvement of the intelligence, the relationship ceases, and the more demanding the relationship is sometimes reversed: a greater reward, worse results!
Are you thinking what I think? Already ... the proposal of the Ministry is not only unnecessary and irritating: could also be counterproductive!
But back to the research. If the material reward is not working, what is effective in motivating people to do a better job? Intrinsic motivation! (Minimum12: 12 and following) Yeah, we've all heard about, right? In general terms, Pink lists three aspects: autonomy, mastery (mastery: I would have translated as "competence") and purpose (purpose, I would translate "sense"), and pauses to comment on the first. To us to reflect on how these three factors can result in schools. This opens up a world. I could do fourteen other post on these three points ... but I will not, do not worry ... I'm happy for this time of pars destruens.
Money Mrs. Gelmini, even if arrived, would only produce paper stunts intended to show black-on-white (and there never will? Can think of only me, so out of hand, at least forty different ways to prove it. .. without any basis in reality?) that the pupils of the school X have improved their average performance of 34.87% last year. Huge bales of paper full of hot air: I can see the books, such as balloons, fly from salt teachers, claiming the right Pence. school Poor, poor us.
I declare and are among those who still regard the teaching mission.
But for this the logical extension of the best companies to a purely elective training and educational environment is unacceptable.
Just as above and its Gelmini have once again chosen the worst way.
E not only because they have implemented a blunt logic: Some teachers are not good? So castighiamoli, and since you do not select, input, teaching staff based on quality, ability and merit in admission and then frustriamoli umiliamoli ongoing.
The road is the worst choice because it is irrational and antipragmatica.
Four video (for now), four times of lessons Avenia D'Alessandro in the classroom. Find them in the side column of this blog, a bit 'below. that is shared or not his style of teaching, it is worth seeing. If nothing else, because it is so rare to be able to open those blessed gates of the classroom, those bunkers opening timed, and see a colleague in action! Just the other day I had an exchange of ideas on Twitter with a colleague overseas on this subject: the laws of privacy, modesty and with other obstacles, making everywhere rare and valuable then the ability to see each other work. During the period in which I did aide , I truly enjoyed this privilege. Few things enrich us professionally as colleagues to attend the lessons of good (and good ones were really a lot!). Sometimes I think the school could alleviate those problems, if the classrooms were like aquariums: transparent. And maybe even visible from the house, the families would take a webcam. My colleague tried the professional sloppiness would have an incentive to greater vigor. The boys were held back more intemperate discreet eye of the executive. And most importantly, those who work well, on both sides, could receive the proper recognition. And advice, exchange of ideas, collaborations (not plastered by the institutionalization of "co-teacher ")... certainly an idea to develop, but ... is just a dream?
You will have already noticed that, in the column on the right, there are two groups of links constantly updated, one under the heading "Highlights" for pages in Italian, and other "Highlights", for those in English.
These links to news, articles and resources that I met on the internet and found interesting, from a strictly personal point of view. They do not necessarily reflect my thinking: things are just beautiful, useful, or at least curious and worth noting. A wonderful and sometimes missed. To you to discover!
Just copincollare these addresses in your feed reader and you will see these links automatically and continuously.
Most of the time I spend surfing right now I dedicate this: look at what the people I report estimates, and report to me again what a nice / exciting / valuable meeting. If you want to do it in your blog, will grow further this blessed movement of good things, which is the best face on the web!
