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I'm going to state a couple of strong opinions and hope it doesn't backfire on me: 1) Teachers should be paid more. 2) Teachers shouldn't be pressured to work
by blitmap 8y ago
I'm going to state a couple of strong opinions and hope it doesn't backfire on me:
1) Teachers should be paid more.
2) Teachers shouldn't be pressured to work so many hours off the clock (after school).
3) Teachers may continue to make their own lesson plans, but they should always have available lesson plans available to them.
4) School administrations should protect teachers from harassing parents.
5) The number of administrative employees & administrations in general should be reduced or consolidated. You have some school districts with over 100 schools, and others shepherding just a few. The differences between districts can be very big (especially when it comes to lesson plans).
6) Politics is f-cking us hard here. Education should be easy to fund and a non-issue. The current situation is under-serving our children, and will create a feedback loop of underfunded/undervalued education. I personally believe a lot of allocated funds are spent wastefully on the administration and not teachers.
7) I wish we had online examinations that students could take over and over from day #1 of the school year to improve on over the year. There could be material that requires teachers be present to administer, and others that students can do on their own at home (and possibly cheat on). It would have helped me immensely to be familiar with what we were going to learn about "next month". I first encountered a syllabus with a month-to-month plan in community college.
8) Can't forget this: F-ck zero tolerance policies. Schools need a lawyer on-site looking out for the rights of students.
9) You shouldn't need a masters degree to teach 5th grade algebra. It should be easy to hire someone off the street who can pass a background check and exams against the course they might teach.
10) And then easier ways to account for students so it doesn't take 15 minutes to 'start class'. Longer days that start later (8am) & less/no homework.
- cheez 8y agoI'm going to state a very strong opinion here and know that it will backfire: families should be educating their kids themselves, and society should make this financially possible (let's start off with eliminating the dual-income family). Teachers, as they are currently qualified, should be adjuncts to the family school.
- andrei_says_ 8y agoI really like this concept, possibly combined with unschooling. Expert tutors, on demand, to provide help where needed.
- cheez 8y agoIt's how I view educating my kids right now. As a single dad though, it's very hard to do all of it. Society needs to rebuild the nuclear family first. Good luck with that.
- kaitai 8y agoThat's what we've done with literacy in the US for the past few decades and literacy rates have decreased. An abject failure. What a terrible idea for society -- religious zealots only teaching their children one religious book (whichever one they like), people afraid of math teaching their children to be afraid of math, thespians only teaching theater, violinists whose children never get to try cello.... parents who don't speak English doing what exactly in English? It works fine if you're a shoemaker teaching your kid to make shoes. But I've seen what my kid learns from her teachers and peers. It is really fun and stuff I'd never come up with.
- cheez 8y agoIsn't the US the country spending the most, per-capita, on education? I don't see how your claim follows. In any case, given the company, you're probably well off, live in a high property tax area and have good public schools.
- therealdrag0 8y agoWouldn't you expect us to be at the top of list, when our average incomes are also top of the list, and a very large country?
- thatfrenchguy 8y agoAnd then you repeat endlessly education inequalities.
- pojzon 8y agoMasters degree is required to know "HOW" to teach different kids, not to know "what" you teach.. Some kids are hard to work with and the studies are (or should be) there to show you how to approach such mind.
- talltimtom 8y agoNumber 9 and 1 are mutually exclusive. If you decrease requirements to increase availability of potential hires you decrease sallery.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoWhy? I don’t understand the logic.
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- erikpukinskis 8y ago#5 is incompatible with #3 and #8. And probably #2. You’re basically saying you want a stronger support network for teachers and students while also reducing staff. That doesn’t make any sense.
- em-bee 8y agonot sure about 5, as mentioned by others, and i would split nr 9 into two parts. i agree with not needing a masters degree, but teachers certainly need serious training in educating and handling children.