Dr. Michie
Gregory Michie is a teacher and a teacher educator in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches in the Department of Foundations at Concordia University Chicago and has been teaching in Chicago for about 20 years. Before becoming a teacher educator, Dr. Michie taught for 9 years as a public school teacher on the south side of Chicago. He has written about his experiences teaching children, and is the author of the book, Holler if You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students, as well as the book, See You When You Get There: Teaching for Change in Public School.
In 1996 Dr. Gregory Michie won the Golden Apple award for excellence in teaching from the Golden Apple Foundation. The Golden Apple Foundation honors outstanding Chicago teachers. They also prepare and strengthen teachers who make differences in the lives of children. The Golden Apple Foundation especially recognizes teachers who teach children from disadvantaged schools.
The site for the Golden Apple Foundation allows students and faculty members to nominate teachers. If you have a teacher, or know of a teacher who has really made a difference go to their site and nominate them.
The site for the Golden Apple Foundation allows students and faculty members to nominate teachers. If you have a teacher, or know of a teacher who has really made a difference go to their site and nominate them.
"The thing is that it's tough to understand the complexity of teaching if you've never done it. Sure, it's possible to come up with catchy slogans like "performance counts." But what exactly is teacher performance? For most of the business-minded reformers, it means raising student test scores. They may nod toward multiple measures of assessing teachers, but they're really looking at "the data," the bottom line.
During the decade I spent teaching in Chicago, I came to understand that being a good teacher is about far more than that. It's taking time after school hours to get to know the community in which you teach. It's figuring out how to create a learning opportunity when one of your students uses racist or homophobic language in class. It's effectively planning research projects even when your classroom has just two computers for 31 kids. How does "performance count" in situations like these?" (Gregory Michie)
During the decade I spent teaching in Chicago, I came to understand that being a good teacher is about far more than that. It's taking time after school hours to get to know the community in which you teach. It's figuring out how to create a learning opportunity when one of your students uses racist or homophobic language in class. It's effectively planning research projects even when your classroom has just two computers for 31 kids. How does "performance count" in situations like these?" (Gregory Michie)
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