[lrdg]

I used put up with this crap. Today, I’m retired and smiling.

[EinNYC]

What you write is absolutely true. They grill teachers on their expertise during the hiring process, but then they are reduced to “facilitators” with this nonsensical new way of teaching.

[GeronL]

more idiotic leftist theories

[mrsmith]

This ‘could’ be a use of the Socratic method- but it’s not.

It’s more of a ‘Lord of the Flies’ thing...

[Jonty30]

How do you construct knowledge, if you do not have the experience to know if you are correct?

[goodnesswins]

Yep...common core...it’s child abuse

[Pontiac]

The general idea is that students will go to the Internet or other sources and figure out everything for themselves...

Then why do we need teachers or schools; this sounds like home school to me and yet the people that promote these methods would burn me at the stake for promoting the ultimate expression of their method.

[LearsFool]

Sounds like someone decided we need more service-industry workers.

[Bon of Babble]

Bruce: What I'm seeing is more and more teachers who are short on subject matter knowledge - English, math, etc. but heavily indoctrinated in pedagogy and Marxist slogans -- straight from Freire'a Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ayer's To Teach: The Journey of A Teacher (I've seen young teachers carrying around these two specious books.

In the "bad old days" we had to pass the comprehensive NTE exam specifically in our subject field after we earned a BA to even be considered for a teaching position.

The NTE has been done away with, I think because it was difficult and fewer college grads were able to pass it.

Too bad -- I thought this supremely stupid "Sage on the Stage" went the way of other failed programs.

As for me, I'm DI all the way -- and that's what I demanded for my own children as well.

[Bryanw92]

>> It was the first premise of all schools throughout history: students would be educated by people who were themselves already educated. A biology teacher had to be an expert in biology; a history teacher must know history to teach history. Who would question the wisdom of these statements?

People with Education degrees question that. They think that expertise in a field of study is not important, but that the study of the “science” of educating is more important.

That’s where you get the idea of students educating students, Common Core, and Pearson self-teaching textbooks.

[Talisker]

Constructivism is a cover story for the use of school to destroy learning itself.

It is a vicious war against the minds of American children, by monsters from hell.

[Moonman62]

Students must not be told that 2+3 = 5; this is not “authentic learning.” Essentially, teachers should stop teaching. The theory, generally called Constructivism or Discovery, requires that students (typically working in groups) construct knowledge for themselves.

The students should wear pajamas, drink hot chocolate and talk about getting knowledge.

[Moonman62]

The ruling class wants to cultivate an underclass of no-nothings who will tolerate their corruption and be dependent on government. And if they can’t produce enough in the schools they’ll bring in illegal aliens to fill the void.