Schools are fucked

wow; from the OTHER side of the podium school is engaging and fun. the hard part is making it that way for the students.

i've been studying how schools implement the process of education for my 2nd graduate program, and i have to tell you they could be a lot better.

~ dan ~
 
You are a teacher, of course you would think school is fun, because it's your career, but look in the student's shoes. They don't think school is "engaging and fun" or any of that bullshit.
 
like i said, it could be a lot better. actually, i blame a lot of it on the perpetuation of the mediocre system by teachers and administrators who don't care enough about the students to change it.

it's like those idiots who say "it works, so it's good enough."

well i'm of the belief that it doesn't work well enough and am one year in to writing my own calculus text. i plan to follow it with a geometry text and perhaps a basic abstract algebra text that would really help students understand.

there's no reason to teach math the way we do: here's a simple method for solving one problem, and here are fifty problems to practice on until you have the method memorized.

fuck that. talk about boring and un-engaging. and yeah, other subjects have the same sort of problems.

i'm more with you than against; school is what you make of it, whether you're a student OR a teacher. and "good enough" isn't good enough for me.

~ dan ~
 
Well, I'm glad there is a teacher that realizes that learning a new type of problem then doing fifty of the same problems that get so hard that the students don't understand a lick of it is stupid. Well, that was how my math class was.
 
and mine too. i hated it. i try to combine the algebraic, geometric, and tangible (some kind of model, or something intuitive that all students do) to help people understand.

part of the problem is that teachers don't care to learn how students learn. i have one student in particular who cannot learn by seeing an illustration, and in the same room there is a student who can ONLY learn by seeing a diagram.

the fix? teach for more than one learning style.
 
There once was a time, where you could get into a fight at school and only get a detention out of it, what the fuck has happened since then? Now if you get into a fight at school, you get arrested, that's fucking bullshit.
 
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