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Flighty DameRegistered User regular
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So this movie
is currently making some waves. Haven't seen it yet, but apparently it mainly focuses on a few students who are in struggling school districts, and follows their troubles. America's education system, at least according to this film, is failing to provide the quality of education deserved by students, and much of this is attributed to so-called "academic sinkholes." In these 'sinkholes,' schools cannot attract or keep high-quality teachers, and so the education of students at these schools suffer dramatically.
It's heavy stuff, and is causing some backlash in the teaching community. Some feel that it is pointing an unfairly accusatory finger at teachers themselves, saying that they can only do so much in an essentially broken system. Others say that many of these teachers have grown complacent due to the tenure system, and should be judged solely on merit with no protection offered simply because of seniority.
Of course, that opens up the rather hairy issue of what exactly 'merit' should be measured by. If you go by test scores, teachers can simply teach to the test. If you go by student grades, teachers can inflate student grades. Meanwhile, the teachers who actually grade fairly and teach with an eye towards the students' overall academic preparation could easily be overlooked or rated poorly.
So I dunno, what do you think
is currently making some waves. Haven't seen it yet, but apparently it mainly focuses on a few students who are in struggling school districts, and follows their troubles. America's education system, at least according to this film, is failing to provide the quality of education deserved by students, and much of this is attributed to so-called "academic sinkholes." In these 'sinkholes,' schools cannot attract or keep high-quality teachers, and so the education of students at these schools suffer dramatically.
It's heavy stuff, and is causing some backlash in the teaching community. Some feel that it is pointing an unfairly accusatory finger at teachers themselves, saying that they can only do so much in an essentially broken system. Others say that many of these teachers have grown complacent due to the tenure system, and should be judged solely on merit with no protection offered simply because of seniority.
Of course, that opens up the rather hairy issue of what exactly 'merit' should be measured by. If you go by test scores, teachers can simply teach to the test. If you go by student grades, teachers can inflate student grades. Meanwhile, the teachers who actually grade fairly and teach with an eye towards the students' overall academic preparation could easily be overlooked or rated poorly.
So I dunno, what do you think
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but I just can't handle bullshit of that magnitude
It involves a complex system of wheels and pulleys and several thousand meters of twine.
Evidently I'm a touch masochistic?
I would really struggle to not punch a 15 year old version of me in the face
but yeah teacher assessment is kind of a really annoying topic that I've never heard of a satisfying solution to.
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As for how to measure merit, that's quite a tricky undertaking for any profession not a concrete product or making the company $texas.
i blame the schools
I say to my housemate "Do you think that's true? That education is a silver bullet?"
She replied "I do. That's why I want to become a teacher. Because I want a gun."
Also this movie looks cool I want to see it.
if one was hypothetically born in 1990 would they be safe to read books?
On the other hand, 80% of high school physics teachers have no university level physics education. None. I know more about physics than almost 80% of high school physics teachers in this country
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seriously this is important
i gotta know
To college students.
Two reasons for this. 1) I would only need a Master's in the field of my choice to teach it, for starters. Also, I wouldn't need to get an education degree.
2) The ratio of people who would actually give a fuck about the subject would be much higher than, say, a highschool classroom, especially for me because I want to teach history.
Oh and 3) I could get away with literally telling someone to "get the fuck out" of the room if they were disrespectful to other students or myself.
Well, I think an easy answer to that is if you actually have a physics degree
you could be making approximately a hojillion dollars more doing ANYTHING else with that degree than teaching
That can be answered using the statistical distribution based off coin flips determined by the direction a rooster's laid egg falls off the peak of a slanted roof.
Does that make sense? I'd re-read my own post but I haven't learned how yet.
gonna teach printmaking to college students while making my art work
yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
for real though this film seems interesting and I would like to see it
trick question
the eggs break when they hit the roof
solved
why is my internet so slow it took 5 minutes to post that, tell me that physics boys
one of my chemistry lecturers has had about the worst language of any person I've met. It's funny seeing him on TV every now and then.
Well I'm half way there (or will be in a month). Still got no idea what to do with the degree though.
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never
there's a secret writing credit to samuel beckett
he shows up with Godot then they high-five George and Martha's son
fuck you redhead mine was better
Then you really have not gone to college if you think you can do number 3 I can think of at least 8 different classes that fall into a failure of the reasons you gave to teach
Well I mean, in comparison to teaching
Figures I've seen suggest a median salary range for physics majors of 95-100K. Not crazy good, but better than teaching
or am i??? *vanishes*
I'm not sure if dave was being sarcastic or not, but it is pretty far up there
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yeah and there's like 3 guys with physics degrees who have jobs
brb getting degree
Well, on the one hand, Michelle Rhee literally offered to double teachers' salaries if they gave up tenure. She had a lot of ideas, unfortunately, teachers' unions are horrible, on the whole.
That's part of the problem, yes.