Novice Teacers as Change Agents

This was a really interesting article. I mean, we go through education classes and are taught what we should do and what we are to think and yet, it seems that once we get into a classroom things suddenly just slip away. We are left to fend for ourselves and to learn to think on our feet. What happens if an argument happens? What happens if one or two people don't want to work in groups but everyone else does? What happens if a student just keeps asking the question"why"? We need to think on our feet and learn how to develop our own method of teaching. By being in the field we get experience with this. And in return, it is no wonder we, as a new generation of educators, get new and different ideas. It is interesting to think that we study under teachers with (generally) several years of experience and yet we are supposed to come up with our own ideas. I would imagine that it would be very difficult to have new ideas and to want to try them out in the classroom but to go against your co-op teacher's views and practices. It is hard enough to have a different view when you are among your peers but to go against someone who has years of experience and knowledge is something different. I understand that it must be done in order to change the system. If anything is to change, we must see novice teachers as change agents. As difficult as it may be, we need some people to want to make that change and to set out and actually change it. I can only hope that I will have the courage and ablity to notice something that needs to be changed and to actually change it.