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Re: TeacherInsight - Thoughts & Advice
Posted by Jodi on 6/30/09

    On 6/29/09, Marina wrote:
    > On 6/29/09, rich wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Thank you for your honesty. This is what I suspected. Mind you that
    >> being "pliable" and "playing ball" are ultimately in the school's best
    >> interest, and not the student's. So the TI doesn't really screen for a
    >> student-centered individual at all. Who benefits from making a super-
    >> easy book-report-drawing that takes no time to grade? The teacher.
    >> I've taken classes from teachers like this, who pass off their basic
    >> laziness and lack of subject matter knowledge as concern for the
    >> students. You're adults. I don't keep attendance. (I don't want to
    >> keep records.) The book is no good, save your money and don't buy it.
    >> (I don't want to read the book and it would take time to create lessons
    >> around it.) I don't believe in traditional tests, they don't help
    >> students. (I don't want to keep a gradebook.) Let's all do group
    >> projects and your group will teach the class for a day. That way you'll
    >> be involved in your education. (That way it's harder for you to nail my
    >> teaching on an evaluation and I will do less teaching.) Total teacher-
    >> centeredness.
    >>
    >
    >
    > I totally agree with this. I am a content-centered teacher. While I do
    > care about the kids, my main goal in the classroom is to teach them
    > content. I am so frustrated by the way we're headed in American education.
    > On the one hand we have NCLB which is all about content, and on the other
    > hand we're wasting time by teaching through fluffy student-centered
    > strategies.
    What is the TI?

     
     

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