Those were among the major themes that emerged during the three-day annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
In making the case for why teachers must be ready to teach on day one, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the school of education at the University of Michigan, lamented how often she hears teachers relate that they were a “wreck” during their first year of teaching.
“This kind of talk can’t go on being acceptable,” Ball said during a presentation about accountability for teacher preparation programs.
“Airline pilots don’t say, ‘My first few years of flying I was a wreck,’” Ball said. “That needs to be gone.”
