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This is a neat video a teacher sent to me. Be sure to watch it to the end for the full effect. It's nice to hear something "positive" about the next generation.
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Very nice. Neat way they wrote it so it could be read backwards and have the good meaning. Let's hope WE can all do that for the most part and the next gen can pull off the whole thing. I'd like to see the end of this "throw-away" society we have.
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Take it from me, MW. We underestimate our kids ALL the time. When I was subbing, a teacher told me not to waste my time explaining so much to the kids about things. I bit my tongue to keep from telling her that no school and no kid needs a jaded teacher like her who underestimates the ability of any kid to learn. You never know how much or how little a kid is capable of understanding. So why not give them too much and let them gain all they can, rather than limiting what you tell them because you're either too lazy to talk to them or you think they're too stupid to learn? We get teachers like that who see the kids in our community as second class just because they live in an encapsulated culture where they don't experience a lot of the things kids in the rest of the country do.
Take it from me, MW. We underestimate our kids ALL the time. When I was subbing, a teacher told me not to waste my time explaining so much to the kids about things. I bit my tongue to keep from telling her that no school and no kid needs a jaded teacher like her who underestimates the ability of any kid to learn. You never know how much or how little a kid is capable of understanding. So why not give them too much and let them gain all they can, rather than limiting what you tell them because you're either too lazy to talk to them or you think they're too stupid to learn? We get teachers like that who see the kids in our community as second class just because they live in an encapsulated culture where they don't experience a lot of the things kids in the rest of the country do.
Yeah, it definitely is an individual thing with many kids able to pick things up quickly and others needing more instruction. Either way, patience and clear explanation is key to getting them to understand.
Unfortunately, with the current mania about testing scores, it becomes apparent pretty quick that schools are trying to cram the maximum amount of education in the minimal amount of time IMO.
I liked this video because it shows that many kids aren't foolish and unmotivated like the ones that often get the most "press."
Take it from me, MW. We underestimate our kids ALL the time.
Some might but personally, I don't. I believe kids usually work hard to reach the expectations we set for them. When I expect the best they're capable of giving that's usually what I get, and I think that's true of most.
When I was in college my first education class was "American School". I'll never forget a study our professor told us about-- in a nutshell it proved beyond a doubt that a child will perform to expectation, over and over. We know that children are naturally intuitive-- it's not a stretch to see how much of an impact a teacher has over a child through those subtle things that happen in a classroom, and how a child picks up on those expectations. The best teachers never forget that.
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Some might but personally, I don't. I believe kids usually work hard to reach the expectations we set for them. When I expect the best they're capable of giving that's usually what I get, and I think that's true of most.
That's it exactly, MW. Every kid has the capability. But so much depends on so many factors, such as parents who care enough to try and motivate their children, teachers who haven't become jaded and overworked by the system, resources, the list goes on. All this testing that someone else mentioned is taking so much time away from our teachers that the kids are suffering for it.
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