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Oh yes, teachers in post communist countries can be separated into two groups: * majority that's absolutely horrible at their job, whose only goal is to averag
by Xelbair 6y ago
Oh yes, teachers in post communist countries can be separated into two groups:
* majority that's absolutely horrible at their job, whose only goal is to average all the children. Hammer down nails that stick out, and artificially inflate grades of struggling children without helping them at all.
* few great motivated teachers, who are genuinely great.
Usually the latter ones were part of protests, or some anti communist movement. at least in my experience.
Supposedly all communist countries had gifted programs, but those were stripped/forgotten in transitional era(at least over here).
Small observation: i haven't met any PE teacher that was part of the second group, nor any of my friends(and their friends) ever did.
- TomMarius 6y agoThe gifted program here was simply about doing more homework and more, harder tests. I was terrible at that. I need to learn by my ways - based on curiosity, with different explanations and methods like spaced repetition. I am very sure that I would do something really bad to the school and teachers if I didn't meet the school's IT teacher, who pulled me out of some of the really bad lessons to work on computers with him, and was the only person who viewed me positively and treated me like a human. I am still coming back to visit him.
- rjsw 6y agoI had one good PE teacher, this wasn't in a post communist country though. He just asked us at the beginning of the year what we wanted to do, we all replied that we wanted to do 5-a-side football indoors so he organized that.