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Re: TeacherInsight - Thoughts & Advice
Posted by joe f on 7/05/09

    On 7/05/09, I'm just curious wrote:
    > When these students grow up, will they be taking a "differentiated" driver's
    > license test? Will they be allowed to make a clay model of a car successfully
    > driving in traffic if they find the actual driving too difficult?
    >
    > Will they be taking "differentiated" SAT or ACT tests?
    >
    > Will they be allowed to follow "differentiated" laws if they find regular laws
    > too difficult to follow?
    >
    >
    > On 6/30/09, Jodi wrote:
    >> 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?

    It is possible to be teacher centered and student centered at the same time.
    Just because you are student centered does not mean you make accomidations that
    are ridiculous, nor does it mean that it is anybody's business what another
    student is doing...being fair is the obsolete concept on the planet simply
    because nothing is ever fair.

    Basically, you just need to BS to pass that test...the answers you give need to
    jibe with that of an understanding, student centered person. Mark is right in
    that they lose alot of these people because the district itself is not that
    way....but the reality is that all school districts are organizations.
    Organizations run a certain way, and if you are too dumb to understand that,
    then working is probably not for you.

    I agree with the student centered approach, there are many ways to impletment it
    without making waves, but alot of the times people do not realize that the
    teaching aspect of their job is just half of the battle...the other half is
    being a good colleague, supporting staff and administration, working to be an
    asset. I think that when a teacher is too student centered, they get
    disillusioned. Nobody here is going to reinvent the wheel nomatter how hard you
    try.

     
     

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