Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 4:44pm
Del. Education Secretary discusses programs, perception of teaching
Updated Friday, August 31, 2012 - 2:06pm
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| State Education Secretary Mark Murphy talks to Rotary Club members. |
Delaware's Secretary of Education talks about results-driven initiatives and increasing the number of quality candidates for teaching positions at Thursday's Rotary Club meeting.
WDEL's Tom Lehman reports.
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Department of Education Secretary Mark Murphy says today's teachers are adapting to new systems of learning as well as the standards by which they're evaluated.
"We could say maybe the most amount of change that our educators have experienced in decades. You could make a pretty strong argument that if you were a teacher a couple of years ago and your a teacher now, all of the systems around you have changed," Murphy says.
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Among the changes Murphy says state officials are focusing on, is tying students' results to educators' evaluations--a new initiative for this school year.
"Every single student should walk into school in the beginning of the school year and walk into school everyday after that first day and expect to learn and expect to grow and every parent should expect that," he says.
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Murphy also says the number of high-performing high school seniors interested in becoming teachers is low because the profession is not viewed as a valued position.
"We need to do work in improving our pipelines, improving the education of our teachers before they ever set foot in a classroom," Murphy says.
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He says the negative predisposition toward becoming teachers has dissuaded some high school seniors from pursuing a job in the field.
"It needs to be perceived as a profession that is exciting, that is empowering and that has upward mobility," he says.
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He says showing high school students and young people that the profession is valued will increase the number of quality candidates for teaching positions.
"We need to do a lot of work on the substance, the training but also we also need to make a cultural shift in terms of how we value and honor the teaching profession and then how we provide people with upward mobility once they're in that teaching profession. They see that path as 18 and 19 year olds and then they choose that profession," he says.
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