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Yep. Had exactly that experience this week. They're trying to teach my youngest how to subtract with carry. Now I taught her the column method about a year ago

by qz2 6y ago

Yep. Had exactly that experience this week. They're trying to teach my youngest how to subtract with carry. Now I taught her the column method about a year ago but she's not allowed to use that suddenly due to a new idea they have. Not a single one of the children understood it so the teacher went back to column method a couple of days later having pissed the time on that attempt out of the window. This sort of stuff happens very regularly. Fashion is exactly it. I feel like they experiment on them rather than use established methods.

tasogare 6y ago
I had a talk about that with a relative (soon to be retired teacher, got a decoration for his job). His point of view was that teachers should be viewed as technicians: they are here a apply a method, not to invent new ones. This doesn’t need to be robotic, it still give a lot of room for personalization. I find he’s really right, especially since in my country everyone want to do their own stuff in their own way. The ministry is guilty as well, because it produces an endless stream of contradictory directives, each based on theories made by pedagogists that never taught in the field.
- tbrownaw 6y ago
  His point of view was that teachers should be viewed as technicians: they are here a apply a method, not to invent new ones. I think this applies to most jobs really. Research and practice are different things, and even when the same person does both it's good to keep them at least somewhat separate. I (almost always) kinda want my doctor or mechanic to follow what's known to work, rather than try out new things. On my own software projects, experimental techniques seem to cause issues a lot more often than standard "best practice" sort of techniques and I try to keep them away from important production system. Etc etc.

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Yep. Had exactly that experience this week. They're trying to teach my youngest how to subtract with carry. Now I taught her the column method about a year ago

by qz2 6y ago

tasogare 6y ago
I had a talk about that with a relative (soon to be retired teacher, got a decoration for his job). His point of view was that teachers should be viewed as technicians: they are here a apply a method, not to invent new ones. This doesn’t need to be robotic, it still give a lot of room for personalization. I find he’s really right, especially since in my country everyone want to do their own stuff in their own way. The ministry is guilty as well, because it produces an endless stream of contradictory directives, each based on theories made by pedagogists that never taught in the field.
- tbrownaw 6y ago
  His point of view was that teachers should be viewed as technicians: they are here a apply a method, not to invent new ones. I think this applies to most jobs really. Research and practice are different things, and even when the same person does both it's good to keep them at least somewhat separate. I (almost always) kinda want my doctor or mechanic to follow what's known to work, rather than try out new things. On my own software projects, experimental techniques seem to cause issues a lot more often than standard "best practice" sort of techniques and I try to keep them away from important production system. Etc etc.