Developing a Corporate Culture in the Abbott Classroom
Developing a Corporate Culture in the Abbot Classroom
Education in New Jersey is coming under attack on a daily basis. An Abbott district, is a district of low-income students. In New Jersey, Elizabeth has been one such district. Elizabeth is a melting pot of cultures. People arrive here from all over the world. There are 142 different languages spoken by students in that district. The city of Elizabeth has over 126,000 residents of which, over 67% speak a language other than English at home, and only 12% have an undergraduate degree (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2011). Only 30% of residents own their home, making students transient (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2011).
There are many teachers who arrive to teach in Abbot Districts who came from other industries, and they have taken an alternate route course to fulfill teaching requirements and be considered highly qualified. This means they generally haven’t studied education in college and they haven’t been able to take part in student teaching. Abbott districts also represent the largest most diverse school districts in the state. Due to lack of time, principals and administrators, are constantly being pulled in multiple directions leaving new teachers to fend for themselves.
Most teachers leave education within the first 5 years for an array of reasons. One of the common reasons seems to be the isolation of a new teacher as well as the feeling of being overwhelmed with so many responsibilities and minimum guidance being offered to the new teacher, this according to Stephen Williams, who wrote the grant proposal for the first alternate route program and Karen Feldcamp who has been an Alternate Route instructor for over 7 years.
Review of Related Literature
According to Bourgeois (1969), there is a crisis of authority that is pervasive in large cities across the nation. Elizabeth, NJ is not an exception. He says, “there are
Education in New Jersey is coming under attack on a daily basis. An Abbott district, is a district of low-income students. In New Jersey, Elizabeth has been one such district. Elizabeth is a melting pot of cultures. People arrive here from all over the world. There are 142 different languages spoken by students in that district. The city of Elizabeth has over 126,000 residents of which, over 67% speak a language other than English at home, and only 12% have an undergraduate degree (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2011). Only 30% of residents own their home, making students transient (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2011).
There are many teachers who arrive to teach in Abbot Districts who came from other industries, and they have taken an alternate route course to fulfill teaching requirements and be considered highly qualified. This means they generally haven’t studied education in college and they haven’t been able to take part in student teaching. Abbott districts also represent the largest most diverse school districts in the state. Due to lack of time, principals and administrators, are constantly being pulled in multiple directions leaving new teachers to fend for themselves.
Most teachers leave education within the first 5 years for an array of reasons. One of the common reasons seems to be the isolation of a new teacher as well as the feeling of being overwhelmed with so many responsibilities and minimum guidance being offered to the new teacher, this according to Stephen Williams, who wrote the grant proposal for the first alternate route program and Karen Feldcamp who has been an Alternate Route instructor for over 7 years.
Review of Related Literature
According to Bourgeois (1969), there is a crisis of authority that is pervasive in large cities across the nation. Elizabeth, NJ is not an exception. He says, “there are
References: A. Donald Bourgeois (Oct., 1969). Community Control and Urban Conflict Theory into Practice, Vol April 7, 2011 Re: Student Study Science Survey and Research Plan I, __________________________________, give permission for my child, ____________________________________, to take part in the survey which is being offered in their science class on April 14, 2012