02-23-2014, 01:18 AM
Are you the only teacher in the world that teaches this subject? What do they teach?
I admit I have a bit of ignorance when it comes to teachers and what they do. Aside from go around with red markers threatening to fail students...
However I always worked under the assumption that Teachers followed a Plan - one laid out by the local authority over education, thus had to teach X number of hours of approved and accepted programing.
I also assumed that the Teachers Text Books had all the answers in red - or something... Hmm or did I copy the answers out of a magical book to pass Math in Jr. High? (shameless of me, I didn't apply myself - again....)
Back when I went to school, "School" was not the synonym for "Fun". Synonyms for "School" were: Drudgery, Work, Boring, Great Drugs... wait no scratch that last one, that was the synonym for Bars....which would come later in life.
Well actually I smoked pot in school - that was kinda fun.... So yeah Great Drugs is a synonym for School.
Anyway. I have no idea what the curriculum you are suppose to be teaching is. Surely there is this Approved Study Plan which may be all boring as hell, but is what the Board of Education believes should be used to program and mold young minds to fit their niche as a cog later in life in society.
If I recall correctly, the reason why my teachers went over the same ground week after week is because their Teaching Plan was geared for the slow minds of the average students and not geared for my slightly above normal intelligence.... Which means that these plans were laid out chapter by chapter to take up every mandatory school day and fill the hours with endless repetition and make it feel as if the subject was really well covered and to give us all something to do for the whole school year.
You know this isn't the first time you have come to us to help you with your school work...
I'm wondering if perhaps you need to sit there and reevaluate what it is you are actually doing and instead of cobbling together a teaching plan on the fly you need to come up with a point by point subject schedule which includes a fair share of boring crap with the interesting stuff that will get you from the first day of the school year to the last.
I think it is wrong to put this pressure on us to do your job for you.
I know you want to be that great teacher that every students likes and who leaves their kids with this impression that education can be fun and interesting. However life is not fun and interesting all the time, there is really, really long boring patches where people want to pull their hair out over the dullness of it all. Part of the education process is to prepare young minds for eventually living in the harsh realities of our world.
Anyway, I will only leave you with one suggestion... Ok a last suggestion since I did allude to a lot of suggestions up there.
Why not have the students come up with a study plan of their own on the subject? They have these devices, access to the internet - perhaps they can take what they know and actually apply it toward improving their own minds?
I admit I have a bit of ignorance when it comes to teachers and what they do. Aside from go around with red markers threatening to fail students...
However I always worked under the assumption that Teachers followed a Plan - one laid out by the local authority over education, thus had to teach X number of hours of approved and accepted programing.
I also assumed that the Teachers Text Books had all the answers in red - or something... Hmm or did I copy the answers out of a magical book to pass Math in Jr. High? (shameless of me, I didn't apply myself - again....)
Quote:So PLEASE give me everything you got, I can't believe you guys never did anything interesting and enjoyable in school.
Back when I went to school, "School" was not the synonym for "Fun". Synonyms for "School" were: Drudgery, Work, Boring, Great Drugs... wait no scratch that last one, that was the synonym for Bars....which would come later in life.
Well actually I smoked pot in school - that was kinda fun.... So yeah Great Drugs is a synonym for School.
Anyway. I have no idea what the curriculum you are suppose to be teaching is. Surely there is this Approved Study Plan which may be all boring as hell, but is what the Board of Education believes should be used to program and mold young minds to fit their niche as a cog later in life in society.
If I recall correctly, the reason why my teachers went over the same ground week after week is because their Teaching Plan was geared for the slow minds of the average students and not geared for my slightly above normal intelligence.... Which means that these plans were laid out chapter by chapter to take up every mandatory school day and fill the hours with endless repetition and make it feel as if the subject was really well covered and to give us all something to do for the whole school year.
You know this isn't the first time you have come to us to help you with your school work...
I'm wondering if perhaps you need to sit there and reevaluate what it is you are actually doing and instead of cobbling together a teaching plan on the fly you need to come up with a point by point subject schedule which includes a fair share of boring crap with the interesting stuff that will get you from the first day of the school year to the last.
I think it is wrong to put this pressure on us to do your job for you.
I know you want to be that great teacher that every students likes and who leaves their kids with this impression that education can be fun and interesting. However life is not fun and interesting all the time, there is really, really long boring patches where people want to pull their hair out over the dullness of it all. Part of the education process is to prepare young minds for eventually living in the harsh realities of our world.
Anyway, I will only leave you with one suggestion... Ok a last suggestion since I did allude to a lot of suggestions up there.
Why not have the students come up with a study plan of their own on the subject? They have these devices, access to the internet - perhaps they can take what they know and actually apply it toward improving their own minds?
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