Article #2
With Origins in the Anti-Knowledge
Ideology Prevailing at Teachers College/Columbia University During the 1920s,
Abominable Teacher Training Abides in the Institutions of the Twin
Cities--- as Subsets of Similar Programs Throughout the United
States
From the days during the 1920s
when William Heard Kilpatrick and Harold Rugg presided in classrooms at
Teachers College/Columbia University, education professors advocated for
teacher training based on their anti-knowledge ideology.
By the 1970s, such programs came
to dominate in departments, colleges, and schools of the United States---
including those in Minnesota. And by the middle 1990s, graduate programs
in education came to replace those in field-specific disciplines as the means
by which teachers moved up the step and lane system so as to attain greater
remuneration. These are graduate programs in name only, cash cows that
yield high revenue for universities but are no more than degree mills that give
us teachers with extraordinarily low knowledge bases.
Among the worst of these terrible
ruses of the education establishment in Minnesota is the following program that
upon completion bestows an M.A. in Teaching and Learning to those who endure
the courses:
Low Quality of Teacher
Training >>>>> The Salient Case of the St. Mary’s
University of Minnesota
Masters (M.Ed.) in Teaching and
Learning
36 credits
>>>>>
$520 per credit
Required Courses
(30 credits)
MED
615
Becoming a Community of
Learners
(4 credits)
MED 616
Applying Social and Emotional
Learning
Principles of
Community
(2 credits)
MED
625
Developing Principles for
Practice
(4 credits)
MED
626
Applying Principles for
Practice
(2 credits)
MED 635
Research and Design
(4 credits)
MED 635
Applying Research to Design
(2 credits)
MED 645
Integrating Principles of Design
into Practice
(4 credits)
MED 646
Application of Research and
Design
(2 credits)
MED 655
Becoming a Teacher
Leader
(4 credits)
MED
655
Applying Principles of
Leadership
(2 credits)
Elective Courses
(6 credits)
MED
660
Education with a Growth
Mindset
(1 credit)
MED
661
Creating a Growth Mindset
Culture
(3 credits)
MED
663
Today’s Busy Teacher:
Battle Burnout and Build Balance
(3 credits)
MED
665
Movement and
Motivation:
Instructional Practices to
Boost Learning and
Achievement
(3 credits)
MED
666
Trauma-Informed
Teaching
(3 credits)
MED 667
Renewal for Teachers and
Educators:
Top 20 Training
(1 credit)
MED 668
Student and Faculty Development
through Social and Emotional
Learning:
Top 20 Training
(3 credit)
MED 669
A Professional Book Study:
Heart! Fully Forming Your
Professional
Life as a Teacher
(3 credit)
MED 670
A Professional Book
Study
and Professional Development
Application:
Heart! Fully Forming Your
Professional
Life as a Teacher
(3 credits)
MED
671
Teaching the Current
Generation!
Understanding the Students in My
Classroom
(3 credits)
MED
672
Be Wild: Unleash Your Innate
Creativity
To Engage Learning
(3 credits)
MED
673
Mathematical Mindsets for
Teaching and Learning
(3 credits)
MED
674
A Professional Book Study 2
(1 credit)
MED
675
A Professional Book Study and
Application 2
(3 credits)
MED 678
A Professional Book Study 3
(1 credit)
MED
679
A Professional Book Study and
Application
3
(3 credits)
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