Real Estate Agents & Teachers #4 ... from Ocean City, New Jersey
This is my 4th posting about real estate agents and teachers as I try to get input from readers to assist me in putting together an education article and maybe a real estate one regarding the training and education of both groups for their occupations.
Teachers go through a similar pattern with higher education departments that focus on the background of education, primary or secondary, teaching methods, etc. I recall some of these terrible course taught by professors who could have never made it through a day in a regular classroom. Obviously, my first thought would be to obtain the practical services of school practitioners who know the topic inside out.
Almost from the first year, students begin to take courses gearing them for the education field. By the fourth year, they will be spending one semester with a practicing teacher in the field ... at a school. Some thoughts: by this time, they have taken all of their courses ... they will be certified as teachers with the end of their student teaching experience. The college's education department has placed them in either a win-win, or win-no-win, or possibly a no-win-no-win situation. By this I mean, many will never be suited for a teaching position but they have not been weeded out during the three-year process.
Another issue is the care and selection of actual teachers for this experience. Many are at best average which results in a double problem ... possibly a poor student teacher with a weak mentor. Many good teachers don't want to have student teachers. I recall my experience when I had two teachers ... one very strong, the other less so. It was like an elevator as I moved up-and-down from class to class knowing that I was being given two sets of instructions.
So we have a flawed system at the college level combined with very little attention given to things at the school level resulting in graduates that all receive "A's" in student teaching and great recommendations from their college professors. As a high school principal later on, I recall reading all of these recommendations coming to the conclusion that I should simply stop reading all of them. Everyone was perfect. I tended to only read those from a school practitioner. It's a poor system at best.
Only a short spot on real estate ... they take a course to pass a test. It is assumed that all arriving agents have passed the test or they could not be real estate agents. But they score on the job based on the money they make, the clients they keep, the word-of-mouth follow-up they have, etc. Some of this is not unlike the teaching field except everyone is paid the same. dap
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