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Why American Education Sucks
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DEAREST PENIS ARCADE COLLEAGUES,
For three days I went to a teaching conference that was supposed to make me a better teacher. At this conference I learned:
1. Most teachers are morons. At the conference I quite literally heard the following questions:
"What's a blackboard"
"If I'm a 7th grade teacher do you think that will have harder classes than 5th grade"
2. "Educators" speak in an illiterate garbled mess of obnoxious and useless terms. Literal words from the presenter at the conference:
Presenter: "So you really need to scaffold and watch your SIOPs. If you don't unwrap the standards and look at the PPOs you'll be birdwalking and we all know how low that is on Bloom's Taxonomy!
The crowd found this sentence to be hilarious. Lools were had all around.
Way to use a bunch of annoying buzzwords just to make yourself sound smart. You are not a lawyer or doctor and you do not need lingo. Regular human translation of that last piece of crap comment:
"You really need to plan your classes and work on teaching to the state standards. If you don't, it'll be too easy to get off topic and your kids won't learn."
American teachers are depressing, American education is sad. I have more great stories but tl;dr.
I cry for you, America.
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For three days I went to a teaching conference that was supposed to make me a better teacher. At this conference I learned:
1. Most teachers are morons. At the conference I quite literally heard the following questions:
"What's a blackboard"
"If I'm a 7th grade teacher do you think that will have harder classes than 5th grade"
2. "Educators" speak in an illiterate garbled mess of obnoxious and useless terms. Literal words from the presenter at the conference:
Presenter: "So you really need to scaffold and watch your SIOPs. If you don't unwrap the standards and look at the PPOs you'll be birdwalking and we all know how low that is on Bloom's Taxonomy!
The crowd found this sentence to be hilarious. Lools were had all around.
Way to use a bunch of annoying buzzwords just to make yourself sound smart. You are not a lawyer or doctor and you do not need lingo. Regular human translation of that last piece of crap comment:
"You really need to plan your classes and work on teaching to the state standards. If you don't, it'll be too easy to get off topic and your kids won't learn."
American teachers are depressing, American education is sad. I have more great stories but tl;dr.
I cry for you, America.
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It's like asking the square root of a million.
No one will ever know.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Another 150 thread!
that's only funny because all the teacher classes spout the same buzzwords
most of the teaching seminars have been pretty good, but I can't stand the touchy feely bullshit
I could really go for some Savvy Indian Chewing Tobacco right now.
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i was afraid you had died 150cockscocks
standardized achievement test?
an education of blood and vodka
a crying peener
i have seen it all
oh man this was such a problem at the school I taught at last year we had 5 day suspensions for the violations of dress code with those stupid ass slogans on them
you should know by know that they don't make professional gatherings to make you better
they make professional gatherings because lonely professionals are incredibly lonely
but it is called the SAT reasoning test
sort of like an ATM machine?
or a PIN number?
but you know, the benefits of helping people just don't outweigh the negatives
especially when those people you're helping can be such pricks
-Mr. Rosie O'Donnell
Sometimes, we should just shoot the stupid ones.
She insisted that Ned Kelly was Hung.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
They make these gatherings so that:
- I can jump through hoops to claim I "developed professionally" so that I can compete for a few hundred bucks of bonus pay at the end of the year
- "Instructional coaches" can make a ton of money telling us incredibly straightforward and common sense things
- Conference presenters can require you to buy the lame book they wrote for the low low price of forty bucks
In an SAT course I took they said it no longer means anything. The letters SAT have been used so much that the acronym has become...itself.
Before that it was the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
one of my academic team students told me the same thing today
it is also retarded.
but that's a plain old fact.
it's funny
I can get an education degree once I finish my batchelors
or
I can move to the northwest territories and teach without one
I guess NWT just have lower standards for teachers?
being a frozen hell and all
Instructional Coach: Every lesson you teach needs to have a real-life application. Kids need to see that everything they learn has to be useful.
150cc: Well... isn't it better just to get them to learn for the sake of learning? Learning is supposed to be fun, why can't I just worry about that? Why does everything have to be useful, why can't I just show them how to learn things just because it's fun to learn?
Instructional Coach: Good luck, kids will never do that.
150cc: That's a little... negative.
Instructional Coach: How long have you been teaching?
150cc: Three years.
Instructional Coach: Figures.
Apparently nowadays both usages are correct.
One of those situations were if enough stupid people use it, our language will conform for them.
You couldn't pay me a million dollars to go to school to get a masters in education, especially if it meant having to sit through two years of the bullcrap I had to slog through for three days
and i think then you'll agree the main problems with schools is that they don't get kids to enjoy learning
i mean, sure, getting your three r's is good
but what's really important is that you're ready to play a part in an extremely complicated, ever-changing world, and to do that you need to learn
don't give up
teach your kids about biological weapons
this is where I realize that being a math major was a terrible idea
batchelors of pmat but no phd?! gtfo, jim
fuck you society
maybe it's an Ohio thing but I have to get my Masters to get a teaching license after like 10 years