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>I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them Like what happens already with exceptional students for an
by gsam 10y ago
>I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them
Like what happens already with exceptional students for any subject. The fact that a number of teachers are barely ahead of their own material is nothing particularly new.
- laurieg 10y agoActually in Japan, I could easily see students being mocked for correcting the teacher. A little story from a Japanese friend who was fluent in English: He, of course, had to take elementary English in school. The teacher was teaching family members and asked "What do you call your grandfather's father?" He replied "I think it's great-grandfather" The teacher laughed at him, causing the whole class to laugh at him. "Of course not, it's grand-grandfather" the teacher replied. Being a humble guy he assumed he was wrong, but checked it in a dictionary after class and showed the teacher. "Oh, well then you can say that as well" snapped the teacher. I'm not suggesting this is every teacher in Japan, but from the mere fact that a child fluent in English has to take a class where they learn "This is a pen" shows you how rigid and ill-thought out the system is.
- marak830 10y agoI have seen this in person. I was even told once by a teacher than anything the ALT's say must be true (even when it was defiantly not). It actually came about as i was a bit nervous about teaching a subject i hadn't done in a long time, and didn't want to mess something up.