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I think you have to go outside the school to find those kind of teachers. They've got an intrinsic motivation to prove they can teach better than the school's s
by sivers 15y ago
I think you have to go outside the school to find those kind of teachers. They've got an intrinsic motivation to prove they can teach better than the school's standard pace.
- j45 15y agoI had two massively influential mentors like this in middle and high school. Both were teachers who cleared the path for me. Instead of the curriculum other students did I was given one that challenged me.
- jseliger 15y agoIn schools as they're currently structured, there's virtually no incentive to do this kind of thing, and quite strong disincentives to: taking special interest in a particular student is often viewed with sexually-tinged suspicion. Most students, including the smarter ones, don't really understand this, which is also part of the problem; I wrote "How to get your professors' attention, along with coaching and mentoring" (http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2%80%99-attention-or-how-to-get-the-coaching-and-mentorship-you-need/ http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2...) in part to remedy this knowledge deficit.