tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post5344772299645093638..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: "Crisis of Confidence" in CAEPRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-23690591931733505102015-03-08T14:32:57.643-04:002015-03-08T14:32:57.643-04:00Seems like a few folks gain empowerment by using o...Seems like a few folks gain empowerment by using outliers and extremes as their justification to beat the drums of fear and anxiety about most any matters these days. Media picks it up to sell papers, air time or pump up ratings and so the vast majority of folks who are doing things right, be it in education, medicine, law enforcement, etc., are perceived by the public as being covered with this false impression of ineffectiveness. <br /><br />Then the trumpeters of reform and accountability are empowered with the immediacy to impose their own unproven, under developed, impractical interventions not on the few who are failing to meet the expectation but upon all, regardless of ability or success.<br /><br />The saddest part of this toxic attempt at oversight is that it robs the respective system and its highest performers of their intrinsic motivation as well as the ideals and purpose of the order/organization. If I am a good teacher, physician or police officer, I now find myself under an unjustified cloud of public doubt. Instead of doing what has made me effective in my own profession and location, I must now dilute that effort with externally imposed mandates for all and effort syphoned not toward the direct need but to fulfill some secondary mandates that provides very little support for those for whom I directly seek to serve. Many lose hope and faith in their discipline which has become hijacked by self defined prophets of professionalism. Again, that is the saddest part - when good folks are disheartened, trampled and simply give up on serving those they have consistently demonstrated success. That leaves only the seasoned folks who must accept half-functionability as the norm in a marginalized environment of bureaucratic bungling and policy/practice wandering. New members to the profession who know no better become indoctrinated not to the genuine ideals of the profession but assume the oversight organization and it regulations, unilateral edicts and detached, heavy handed declarations are the purpose for their practice and not those for whom they actually serve. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-3524388641425549012015-03-07T21:00:44.569-05:002015-03-07T21:00:44.569-05:00I had little use for Cibulka who was once head of ...I had little use for Cibulka who was once head of the UK College of Education. Cibulka did not know the faculty well, nor the students. UK was a a rung on the ladder for this man.<br /><br />As for Dr. Holliday, I even less respect for him or the dissertation he wrote at the University of South Carolina. <br /><br />I see neither of these men as competent leaders in a field that desperately needs them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-70858690316371053782015-03-05T16:02:21.431-05:002015-03-05T16:02:21.431-05:00A former dean indicated that in order to facilitat...A former dean indicated that in order to facilitate the CAEP process that our college would be required to hire a data analysis as well as invest in data software management system which would cost well over $100,000. As mentioned in the article, one must wonder if this ongoing expense simply to oversee data collection and process is really going to improve teacher education. One might speculate that teacher prep is now being forced to go down the same path as K12 which increasing investment(financial, personnel and time) in bureaucratic mechanisms which seem to only grow over time.<br /><br />Commish needs to listen to what AACTE is saying instead of declaring they are "speaking out of both side of their mouth." They are not questioning the need for oversight, review and accreditation by an organization. The criticism is the process and mechanisms might not be practical in their current form and most certainly can't be used as a template if CAEP continues to not only fail to provide the specific parameters and tools well in advance, but also is apparently inconsistent in its representatives' responses. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com