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The "how" is quite lacking.
by wkdown 10y ago
The "how" is quite lacking.
- dang 10y agoOk, we took 'how' out of the title above.
- x1798DE 10y agoI must say, this kind of thing is what keeps me coming to HN. It's very refreshing to see actual anti clickbait policies on link aggregators.
- dang 10y agoSomeone's got to do it. Plus it's an amusing challenge and something about which the community is as unanimous as it gets.
- Cyph0n 10y agoActually it's /u/dang who keeps me coming back. The guy is a moderating machine! Keep up the awesome work man :)
- dang 10y agoIn the face of praise like that I won't even hold the reddit URI against you. Thanks!
- jobu 10y agoSeems pretty clear to me: Yom says he keeps getting asked if there's some secret recipe for getting students to perform at their highest potential. "This may sound corny, but you really have to love them," Yom says. "You build this trust, and at that point, whatever you ask them to do, they'll go the extra mile. The recipe is love." Basically it comes down to soft skills. If people think you care about them they will care about what you want and think and help you achieve things together.
- ktRolster 10y agoWhich would explain why new 'systems' like common whatever, pushed from the top down, aren't the best way to improve schools. Which is like forcing programmers into a forced Agile system....it's better to focus on improving the skills of the programmers. The guy in Stand and Deliver was similar.
- fisherjeff 10y agoI don't see any reason why the two should be mutually exclusive
- ktRolster 10y agoIt's more like an ordering: improving teacher skill should come before forcing them into a system.
- uxp 10y agoCommon core is _what_ they should be teaching. Soft skills is _how_ they should be teaching. I'm fine if you want to hate on the Common Core like so many, but these points are so completely unrelated this argument doesn't make any sense. We aren't min/maxing teachers like we would with our character in an MMORPG, these are human people.
- ktRolster 10y agoltr: no one is hating on common core.
- acbart 10y agoCommon Core, in theory, isn't a problem - unifying standards across schools has a lot of benefits (easier to design reusable curriculums, perform scientific inquiries, develop software). The problem is when it gets conflated with high-stakes testing, which is a terrible thing.
- vermontdevil 10y agoSee Stand and Deliver. I'm sure similar technique - teacher focused on the students and found ways to motivate them.
- CarolineW 10y agoReferenced in the linked article.
- vermontdevil 10y agoI know. I'm replying to the OP's question: "how".