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You are an ignorant buffoon.WHAT IS THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE THAT TEACHERS MUST KNOW?????
It does not exist!
If anyone reading this is a teacher, let's have a few examples. A doctor must know how the heart functions. A lawyer must know the elements of a tort. Etc.
What is the body of knowledge that teachers must know? The very idea is silly.
Can you even imagine a teacher being charged with "MALPRACTICE"? It is a sick joke. They engage in malpractice every day of the week, and we pay them for it!
Pay attention, stupid.....
Please describe. Give us a hint.
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Your complete ignorance of the topic doesn't slow down your uninformed comments at all, does it?.... Everybody has their own method; there is no right and wrong. .....
Why is it that people continue to get sick and die if doctors are professionals? In fact, the average lifespan of an American male has fallen. Better get your next prostate exam from a car salesman......
And in addition, why is it that student OUTCOMES have not improved over the past 50 years.....
WHAT IS THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE THAT TEACHERS MUST KNOW?????
It does not exist!
If anyone reading this is a teacher, let's have a few examples. A doctor must know how the heart functions. A lawyer must know the elements of a tort. Etc.
What is the body of knowledge that teachers must know? The very idea is silly.
Can you even imagine a teacher being charged with "MALPRACTICE"? It is a sick joke. They engage in malpractice every day of the week, and we pay them for it!
Yes, it is.Yes, yes, yes. "Pedagogical knowledge." This is not something that a prospective teacher must master. ...
That is why teachers are tested on this knowledge and required to update their skills and knowledge regularly, just like other PROFESSIONS........In fact, the theories on pedagogy change from generation to generation, so a teacher who was up to speed twenty years ago may be teaching in an entirely different manner than what is recommended today.
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In ten years there will be new knowledge, theories, and procedures in medicine as well. PROFESSION....... And so it goes. Today's theories will be discredited in ten years.
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Include "teaching" on that list.......all true professions administer a comprehensive test to candidates, and if you don't pass the test, you cannot practice law, medicine, dentistry, etc. .....
Medical procedures change over time, but the intended result is always the health and welfare of patients...... Methods (or in Academic-Speak, "methodologies") change over time, but the results never do.
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YOU can't guarantee shit, because YOU have no idea what you're talking about......
I guarantee that if you.....
Yes, yes, yes. "Pedagogical knowledge." This is not something that a prospective teacher must master. In fact, the theories on pedagogy change from generation to generation, so a teacher who was up to speed twenty years ago may be teaching in an entirely different manner than what is recommended today.
But it is not a fixed body of knowledge. It is a compilation of theories that the author asserts are proven by research. But so were yesterday's theories which are now discredited. And so it goes. Today's theories will be discredited in ten years.
And yet...and yet, where is the "BEEF"? Where are the data that verify that today's teaching methods are more successful - as measured by standardized tests? Non-Existent. It is all fluff and nonsense
One could produce exactly the same sort of self-serving balderdash on the topic of selling used cars. Methods (or in Academic-Speak, "methodologies") change over time, but the results never do.
I guarantee that if you distilled the top recommendations from the linked article and quizzed 100 public school teachers on their knowledge of same, the result would be 98 examples of "deer in the headlights."
There is no finite body of esoteric knowledge that one must master in order to be a teacher. All true Professions have such a finite body of knowledge, and all true professions administer a comprehensive test to candidates, and if you don't pass the test, you cannot practice law, medicine, dentistry, etc. Doesn't apply to teaching because it is not a profession.
Which is not to say that "professionalism" should not be encouraged, but that's not the same thing.
Where is the data that show people don't get sick or die anymore because medicine is a PROFESSION?.....
But again I ask: Where is the data that show that enhanced pedagogy has improved educational OUTCOMES over the past fifty years?
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You meant to say "tendency to provide specific data directly refuting ignorant nonsense..."... Its tendency to simply deny what it doesn't like ...