In her 27-year career, Hamblin adds, she has seen educational theories and practices recycled over and over, gussied up with new jargon. What rookies learn in college as cutting edge ideas, she says, are often things she and her fellow veterans have already tried. Well, I'm not ready to rot. In exchange for their wisdom and experience, veterans want new ideas. We expect them to share with us the new ideas they've discovered.
Every teacher tries to learn something new every day.
We're here to help, really we are. Veterans want to get rookies off to a good start in the profession. But rookies, veterans say, often seem fiercely determined to make their own way. We're not going to last forever. Here are some ideas, formal and informal, for bridging the generation gap.