Faculty of Education Education News Spring / Summer 2013 Page 3
2 . Barriers to Teacher and Student Success . This theme includes the primary consequences of work intensification including increased demands of rapid and extensive changes , increased expectations for accountability , and decreased supports for students .
3 . Compromises to Teacher Commitment . This theme includes the indirect consequences of work intensification , including a perceived lack of appreciation of and support for their professionalism , and increased pressures on their personal lives and on their health and well-being .
To maintain their own integrity , teachers have to see that the glass is half full in order to believe that the work they do is important , is appreciated , and is making a difference for a better world – one student , one classroom , one school , and one community at a time .
This edition of Education News demonstrates that teacher education , both pre-service and graduate work , is complex , diverse , challenging , and political - an intensely human endeavour . Teaching requires collaboration , multi-tasking , high levels of micro- and macroplanning , ease with ambiguity and conflict , and time to reflect deeply in and on pedagogical practice . This SIDRU research
into teachers ’ professional time invites further study of the relationship of public education to the development of engaged citizenry and civic leadership , and of the teaching profession ’ s contribution to the social contract . Many educators believe that educational reform will never be successful “ if we continue to demean and dishearten the human resource called the teacher on whom so much depends ... if we fail to cherish and to challenge the human heart that is the source of good teaching .” 1
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Palmer , P . ( 1998 , 2007 ). The Courage to Teach : Tenth Anniversary Edition . San Francisco : John Wiley & Sons , Inc .
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Education News is a publication of the Faculty of Education , University of Regina , Regina , SK Managing Editor , Layout & Design : Shuana Niessen ( shuana . niessen @ uregina . ca ) Editorial Board : Dr . James McNinch and Dr . Val Mulholland