EP153 Why teachers are historically overworked & undervalued, and how to disrupt the pattern (with Jenn Binis)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
There's no doubt that teacher compensation, along with the unrealistic demands of the profession, are both hot topics right now. How did we end up here? How do teachers across the country effectively make changes? We need to understand the societal norms, institutional structures, gender dynamics, and other factors that got the teaching profession to what it is today in order to advocate for change.
Join me today in an interview with Jennifer Binis, podcaster and curator of @Edhistory101, for an edu-history lesson you never knew you needed! She hopes to spread the important message to educators that we are obligated to understand the historical perspective of the teaching profession so that we can interrupt the damaging patterns present today. I hope you'll find her message inspiring!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 153 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:07.2 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:12.4 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized. encouragement and |
| 0:14.1 | get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.8 | Today I'm talking with Jennifer Benis about why schools overwork and undervalue teachers |
| 0:22.1 | from a historical perspective and how we can use |
| 0:25.5 | this knowledge to help us interrupt patterns and advocate for change. |
| 0:30.3 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, the links to the resources that Jen recommends, |
| 0:36.0 | and to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:38.0 | If you're a long time or a regular listener, I would love for you to also share your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes. |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks so much for helping to spread the word about this show. |
| 0:49.0 | So today you are in for a treat. You are going to get the edu history lesson that you never knew |
| 0:56.2 | you needed. We talk a lot about what a shame it is that teachers are so poorly paid and how unrealistic the demands are, but we don't talk nearly as |
| 1:06.5 | much about how things got to be this way. We need to understand the societal norms, the institutional structures, gender dynamics, |
| 1:15.5 | all of these different things that got us to where we're at today |
| 1:18.9 | in order to be able to influence them moving forward. |
| 1:22.0 | Jennifer Benes is one of the most knowledgeable people that I know on this topic. |
| 1:27.0 | I follow her on Twitter, she's at Jen J-E-N-N-I-S, and I'm just fascinated by her ability to notice patterns and to disrupt them. |
| 1:40.3 | She's also the curator of Ed History 101. |
| 1:43.6 | That's on Twitter and it's also a podcast on education history. |
| 1:47.6 | She doesn't regularly update the podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | There hasn't been a new episode in quite some time actually, but I still recommend knowing |
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