Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
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Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
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Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#2Wasn't there a previous discussion/article on this (or at least something very similar)?
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#3...does she learn how to write clickbait headlines?
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#4Saved you a click (from the top comment the last time this was posted):
The three points from the article:
> [1] Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
> [2] High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their classes.
> [3] You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.
People wonder why high school aged students are unruly, unpleasant, and filled with deep negative emotions (anger, disdain, need-to-rebel). I look at this list (especially [2] and the lack of autonomy that follows) and the reason seems really clear. The basic model seems broken.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442067
Original source of the story here: http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/a-veteran-teach...
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#5Why is this so surprising? Wasn't every teacher a high school student at some point? Is the experience so traumatic that they completely forget what the schedule was like once they become teachers themselves?
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#6...does she learn how to write clickbait headlines?
The only thing worse than "clickbait" headlines are comments complaining about clickbait headlines. If you don't like the article - don't read it.
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#7How can someone who has been teaching for 14 years pass themselves off as a 16 year old?
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#8How can someone who has been teaching for 14 years pass themselves off as a 16 year old?
OFFS, RTFA.
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#9Why is this so surprising? Wasn't every teacher a high school student at some point? Is the experience so traumatic that they completely forget what the schedule was like once they become teachers themselves?
You don't need trauma to just forget things. You've experienced many hours of continuous stimulation every day for years, and most of that is naturally thrown away, including the mental impact of experiences that seem at the time like they will always stay with you.
Plus, it seems reasonable that doing the same tasks from the point of view of actually being the teacher, now having a lot more life experience and other things to think about, should make previously normal parts of the experience stand out. If you think this should be unnecessary, and 'obvious' just from thinking back to your own school days, I think you are either highly abnormal or simply wrong.
Re: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
#10I do wish that my school had had the block scheduling this school seems to have. We had 8 periods in a day (school was a half period) and they were all ~50 minutes. This is barely enough time to accomplish anything, and days where the classes were shorter (teachers' meetings) then each class was worthless.