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>Throwing thirty teenagers in a room at 8am and having a tenured adult speak at them for 45 minutes on a subject is not a recipe for success The problem here i
by p_j_w 5y ago
>Throwing thirty teenagers in a room at 8am and having a tenured adult speak at them for 45 minutes on a subject is not a recipe for success
The problem here is that getting enough money to hire more teachers per student is like pulling teeth. The problem that we as a society are solving isn't "how can we achieve the best overall educational outcome?" It's "how can we avoid a disastrously uneducated population with a budget of $X?" I'm not entirely sure we're doing a good job on that one either, though.
- dweekly 5y agoRight - but part of the difficulty and expense in hiring teachers is that we've segmented it off as an expert population with high barriers to entry. If everyone who learned was also expected to teach, you scale the teaching population with the learner population. You can actually see the dynamics of this play out with flight training, since you get your CFI at ~300hrs total flight experience but nobody will hire you with less than ~1,000hrs, so you have this massive pool of certified teachers with 300 - 1,000hrs of experience available to teach as a consequence of the design of the system.
- bryondowd 5y agoI wonder if you could get some positive results by using students as tutors. Imagine if a certain number of hours per week, you paired up students in grade X with students in grade X-1, to have the older students help the younger ones to learn the material they leaned the previous year. This would also help cement that knowledge in the older group. Then you also have time where the students in grade X are tutored by students in grade X+1, through the same process. During this time, the teachers' jobs would be to provide support.