After some welcome time off, a new class begins: educational psychology. The first voluntary assignment in the textbook’s first chapter is to create a blog (done that already) and then a post on “Does HIghly Qualified Mean Good Teaching?” with reference to “No Child Left Behind.” My answer would be be a qualified yes: highly qualified teachers mean better teaching. Getting an advanced certificate demonstrates that: the graduate courses I’ve taken at Pace have not focused on content but have instead given me strategies, self-knowledge, techniques, ideas, counseling, to make me more effective in getting across content and more importantly ideas when I (finally) enter a high school or middle school classroom.
