PODCAST Making teaching more affordable

I choose this podcast, Making Teaching more Affordable, because I found it really interesting.

In that podcast we can see two people talking, Efundunke Hugues, who is a teacher in Berkley Maynard Academy and Deborah Stipek who is the first James Quillen dean and professor, in school of education. This video deals with students loans which have been reduced in Stanford for graduates people which are teaching in undeserved communities .

  Efundunke Hugues is a black teacher in Berkley Maynard Academy. At the begining she wanted to be an engineer, that was the reason why she came into Stanford. She says in the video that there was a needed of black engineer, but she has never heard that there was a needed of black teachers, even if it was the case. She explains that those people a respected, paid a lot and she knew that. So she decided to became an engineer. However, she started the to ask herself if it really was what she wanted to do...was that realy her passion ?

  Deborah Stipek then explains what the STEP program refers to, that is to say Stanford Teacher Education Program, it is a master program.

  Efundunke Hugues decided then to become a teacher, and, teach to change the world, because, children are our future.

During the first week of school, they focus on what the want to become when they grew up . She also says that if you want to go to Stanford you have to be able to work together, to have a valuer direction, but you must also have to believe in yoursel to be successful. She knew that she was accepted in STEP when she was Senior level . But she immediatly thought that she could not afford it . So she tought about it, and decided to send an e-mail to the President. She explained in her e-mail that she realy wanted to become a teacher and she explains her passion of teaching to him. Then, she told him that she could not afford to the program, so by extention, she could not afford to be a teacher.

 She says that some of her students cannot afford books and so she thinks that is not normal. She says that knowledge is something that we should share, and defenitly not something where people are penalized because they cannot afford education.

  Deborah Hugues thinks that a long forgivness program will help us to attract students who otherwives even would not considered teaching at all.She thinks that there is no more important profession, she says : "that is our future".

  What Efundunke Hugues hopes is that her students will go to College, and think that did their best.