Stories

In his classic Schoolteacher (1975), sociologist Dan Lortie coined the term “apprenticeship of observation” to describe the thousands of hours we spend as students observing and evaluating educators in action. He explored the hazy perception these hours generally lead most of us to hold about teachers and teaching.

Perhaps no other profession creates more stories in a class period, day, or year than teaching. And almost all of those stories go untold. As part of SC-TEACHER’s work to understand the impact of the state’s teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention policies and practices, we are sharing stories from educators—firsthand from their classrooms and schools—so we can be reminded of what they experience NOW. We have much to learn from them.