Think of material to be learned as answers, and take the time necessary to explain the questions.Sort of like the punch line of a joke has to be set up and not be blurted out before the rest of the joke has set it up.
Children are more alike than different in terms of learning. Knowledge of students' learning styles is not necessary.So much for "multiple intelligences."
Intelligence can be changed through sustained hard work.This means that "intelligence" is not an intrinsic characteristic of a given person, but rather is significantly affected by how much that person has thought - and about what.Always talk about successes and failures in terms of effort, not ability.This is IMHO a crucial point the author makes. If you praise effort and success, you increase morale. If you praise ability apart from effort, you are actually flattering the student - which can only tend to produce arrogance and a reluctance to apply effort because a "smart" person doesn't have to study.
Bump.
A for effort even tough you deserved a D?
I fundamentally disagree with the author. As an adult, I well remember my school days, and why I didn’t like them.
School was a punishment for a crime I didn’t commit. I was forced to get up early, to interact with people I didn’t care to associate with, forced to sit still, and to study topics I had no interest in. I was taught facts that may not necessarily be true (let’s call this propaganda).
More effort was place on topics to satisfy whatever politcal cause was considered ‘important’ than was vested in skills that would prove vital later on. Simple things like how ‘compound interest’ works, what are the differences between a credit card with 7% and 22% interest. Why is it important to save a little bit out of your income, now; instead of wait until you are ready to retire.
No, but a significant effort was made to teach how America failed the American Indians, Blacks, and every other minority all over the world.
Why don’t students like school?
‘Cause they have to listen indoctrination from Libs?
Not enough 0bama?
/s
Maybe because where my kids went to high school some of the teachers did everything they could to make sure that they did not succeed.
FWIW...
“If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to
get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving
the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The
college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to
rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure
interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by
opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for
boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I absolutely hated school, and had a persistent nightmare, even years after graduation, that I was stuck in high school and couldn’t get out.
I loved only one subject - math. I think I loved math because once I learned it, it always worked the same way. IOW, math was apolitical.
I’m dating myself, but my teachers certainly weren’t worried about my self-esteem. I earned/deserved the grades I received, and appreciate not being strung along. My teachers were teachers, not babysitters.
They generally don’t like it because it is work.
Kids who like to work like it a little better.
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Answer:
Because schools resemble prisons. Children ( who have committed no crime) are treated like prisoners. All of their First Amendment Rights are trashed( Speech, press, assembly, and free expression of religion). And....Children know if they try to escape, real police with real bullets in their guns will haul them before real judges in real courts. Children know that behind every government school teacher and principal stands the threat of real hard-time prison.
2. Students with more interest in "sports" than actual learning, with their parents having a similar attitude.
3. In poorer districts and even lower middle class districts, you have thugs who will harass you for fun, and worse.
4. In the wealthier districts, it is basically a competitive fashion show (uniforms NOW!).
5. You spend way too much time on subjects with little relevance to your actual interests/future career. This makes sense at the primary level, but there needs to be more flexibility at the high school level.
6. Too much of the work is done at home, rather than during the school day.