http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/07/09/wendy-kopp-got-lucky/ Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/07/09/wendy-kopp-got-lucky/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Gina Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:47:10 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=1516#comment-318 This is pretty glib, I must say. The assumption that you can just teach because you can't figure out what else to do is one thing. The assumption that the municipality/state should make it easy fr you as an untrained, seemingly uncommitted teacher is entirely another. She sure did get lucky: capitalizing on the joke that has been made of the teaching profession. It's just another entry-level job for the untrained, and therefore necessarily underpaid and under-respected. This is pretty glib, I must say. The assumption that you can just teach because you can’t figure out what else to do is one thing. The assumption that the municipality/state should make it easy fr you as an untrained, seemingly uncommitted teacher is entirely another. She sure did get lucky: capitalizing on the joke that has been made of the teaching profession. It’s just another entry-level job for the untrained, and therefore necessarily underpaid and under-respected.

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