personuser · #2Yeah, according to everybody on TV that we've seen and the president himself, education is falling because of the TEACHERS not doing well enough. That's a god damn cover-up; It's the kids being punks, and believe me I've seen a lot of what the lil' mofos do to the teachers. One teacher in my school got gang-beaten cause a bunch of kids in a gang got Fs on their history tests. Nto everyone was in a gang, but most just refused to learn.We need a non-lethal electric chair in every school, I say. OR at least the teachers should have tasers.
Because hey, blaming the generation of kids is much more rational than blaming the teachers' general quality, right?
Honestly, it's both a problem concerning with teachers AND students. Students generally need a more interactive class and have a teacher that adapts to each learning style. Students this generation are different from the previous and so on and so forth, what worked for the last generation of kids won't work with this generation.
I generally had good teachers who had adapted a more interactive class room (where class room discussions were common place), an interactive class room means more kids chiming in, enjoying themselves and being interested in the subject at hand. Also these teachers were good with adapting to different learning styles, as in, they understand that different kids learnt differently, some need visuals, some need to read, and/or some need to write to effectively learn. Also pacing is another thing that teachers need, having a efficient lesson plan throughout the semester is incredibly important so that when there's the last few weeks before the final, you aren't rushing through the rest of the modules that needs to be covered, generally the last couple weeks should be review.
The problem with some teachers is that they think that reading directly from a classroom textbook, or just talking for 80 minutes with little interaction besides questions, is an effective teaching method. It's not, it's boring, and the students will tune out, in turn, not learn anything.
Tests and exams, are also not a very effective way to grade. When I took Social Studies, I hated it and I wasn't very good at it, since it was the first block of the day for all of high school, I went to school early and just memorized the notes. So by the time I did the test, I'd have the notes memorized, and thus have a good grade in my test. That being said, I said memorized, I never learned anything from the notes. Nothing stuck with me past the exam. By the time it was the multiple choice final, I did abysmal since I can't memorize a whole semester worth of notes (although I did great on the written).
Being graded on course work throughout the year is much more effective in terms of learning. Not in terms of grades or anything, but just of learning. Also having the teacher go through the course work or test beforehand to clarify questions is great (I've had one teacher who did this and it avoided a ton of confusion regarding vague questions and confusing questions). I also remember Spanish being totally fucking awesome since it was mostly projects with one exam. And the projects were fun and we were able to choose our partner.
As I said, it's a problem with both students and teachers, as the students of today learn differently from the ones yesterday, and teachers simply haven't adapted yet.
That being said, I can't exactly comment on Hypr's post since I have never gone through college/university (or even considered it tbh), besides that trigonometry was the easiest part of Math.
There's so much more to school that sucks for quality of education, but that's just too much to cover to be honest.
