Posted on 05/03/2007 8:10:43 AM PDT by devane617
And teachers can’t make a child to want to learn. Society has more influence to the desire to learn for a child than teachers. With the media today, it’s all about now, I want it, I’m cool, look at me, get this and you’ll be happy. And we wonder why?
I think it helps seperate good teachers from the bad..
Good teachers become teachers because they love their subject and they love children. In any situation regarding education, a personal connection, some sort of recognition of the mutual humanity of the teacher and student, SOMETHING deeper and more profound than an easy paycheck has to be the motivator.
Bad teachers become teachers because they love a short work year and unionized job security. They often do not even see their students as human beings, rather as inconveniences, job tasks if you will.
She sounds like a Teacher Ratchet. Was she a twin sister to Nurse Ratchet?
Some still aren't afraid of those categorizations. while the "tags" may be slightly different, the concept remains the same.
And they’ll protect cucumbers from STD’s.
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I blame them both.
**BOTH** the good and the bad are cooperating with NEA Marxists who are determined to destroy our nation, Constitution, freedom, economy, and everything we value.
Obviously you live in an area without massive illegal immigration...for the time being.
Same here. When I went to K (1968), kids knew their colors, letters and numbers, but that was about it. I think the standards have changed, but the methods don't meet the standards.
or, is that "it be hugh!"?
That's "separate" from the Latin, separo. (At least, that's how Mrs. Clausius explained it.)
On this issue, John Taylor Gatto is so wrong it is scary. What he is doing in this statement is lumping in instruction with exposure. A child with hundreds of hours of exposure to text can probably be taught the basics in 100 hours of instruction. The problem is that some kids come to school not even knowing left to right or up down orientation. They do not know that these squiggles correspond to sounds and to meaning. They have no concept of word.
Once concept of word is attained, the child is literally hours away from reading basic text. The problem is getting them to concept of word. That is the time the parent spends holding a toddler reading the same book over and over, pointing to a page and asking them "What do you think is happening?" and reading nursery rhymes. When the ground work is laid down by parents, any good teacher has an easy job. When the job is not easy, even though the exposure is there, that is when we the reading specialists come in and try to decipher what is going on to prevent the attainment of literacy.
One problem is the graded structure. Not all six year-olds are exactly six years old. Even those born on the same day are not equal in personal or physical development. But every child included in an age range that amounts to a fifth of their previous life is placed in the same class-room. The solution that the school system offers is to start the process first a year and then two years earlier. That still doesn’t solve the basic problem: apples and oranges are put together in the same box and it is left to the teachers somehow to sort them out. I don’t know what the solution is, and that is reeally because I don’t know how todefine the problem. Every school is a bit like a boot camp, but without the necessary brutality.
Remember, with athletic & social involvements taking time and financial priority, many parents seem to see academic performance as only one goal in a range of qualities they want to see in their children.
My younger son could not learn phonetically. Some people just don’t take in information orally very well. They have to be sight readers. It is like some people are unmusical while others can memorize whole songs at one hearing. The problem with schools is that they are either or. They teach a class only one way.
Make that aurally. Nothing wrong with his taste! ;-)
Thanks a bunch.
“That’s despite having 95 percent of its students receiving free lunches ... “
Uh, okay.
” I’ve come to the conclusion my youth was wasted learning spelling and grammar.”
It used to be it was wasted shooting pool. This is a strange country.
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