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Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!
Posted by think of the workplace on 5/17/08
>
> I just can't let myself believe that high school is
> pointless. I believe that you get something from every
> experience you have - the more experiences the better. This
> is why I'm so upset by a student who shows up 70 days out of
> the school year for 4 years in a row and is allowed to walk
> across the stage at graduation with his classmates that
> worked their a**es off to actually learn. I just don't get
it. Yep, and these people may go on to the lower positions in
companies where they do the bare minimum to get by and
complain the entire time they are overworked. I know of
several people who bring their learned helplessness with them
to the workplace. It is not surprising that high schools have
many of the same social mechanisms in place as the "real
world" out there. It is too bad that the way high schools are set up ask for
certification in only one subject in order to teach that
subject. I can't tell you how many people I've had to deal
with who are so subject focused they forget they are there to
teach. Teaching involves much much more than presenting
information and expecting the high schoolers mind to absorb it
like a sponge. As society's focus has shifted away from the
home, schools are left to fill in those gaps. Unfortunately,
teacher training is not really enough to thoroughly prepare
high school teachers for all the problems that walk in their
door that we are expected to be "experts" at dealing with. I can only say for myself that over 15 years of classroom
experience dealing with everything thrown my way has even
begun to prepare me for what I may get the next year. I,
personally, would like to see every teaching training program
include more on classroom management, school climate and how
to be a more effective motivator who can recognize some
underlying causes of student apathy and be prepared to deal
with them. Until that happens, this debate will continue to
be cyclical and frustrating for all sides.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by BMoreTeacher.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by Rodeo.
- Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by LbP.
- Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by What????.
- Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by Rodeo.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by Sara.
- Re: NCLB, 5/17/08, by to Rodeo.
- Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree, 5/17/08, by Sara.
- Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/17/08, by I agree.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by To ACP.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by BMorePeachy.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by think of the workplace.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by high school English teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: A question - tracking students early on , 5/18/08, by BTrack.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by BMoreTeacher .
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/19/08, by Catsister.
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