Teaching

I talked to our friend Tracy tonight about programs for getting a masters in education, and getting "floor experience, direct eperience teaching chidlren and learning realitic, practical skills as a teacher.
I told hr that my one fear about Harvard's program which is all about teaching inner city kids is that I would run into the same program ANova did with Teach for America, that the whole dynamic would be about this kid from Harvard coming dwon from an Ivy tower to teach poor disadvantaged little people the errors in their ways. But Tracy tod me that at Charlestown high school almost everyone had come from Harard or some other Ivy league school and that principals really appreciate, in genral at least, teachers who go the extra distance ot get a really "serious" education. I totally appreicate that fact, because I would like to take a vry serious, very academic, techncial approach to teaching, and yet I wnt to really be getting practical skills, not just understanding the "pure" approach to the theory of education.