Teaching students who are genuinely interested (or even simply put the effort in to learn) is fun. The problem is that "teaching" jobs aren't that. I believe th

Teaching students who are genuinely interested (or even simply put the effort in to learn) is fun. The problem is that "teaching" jobs aren't that. I believe the solution (besides higher pay, safety, reasonably admin, and the other obvious stuff you'll find e.g. at https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/) is this: Use technology to alleviate the boring parts of teaching (which also happen to be parts technology is good at) while leaving the fun parts (which also happen to be the parts technology can't replace) to the teachers themselves. By "boring parts" I mean: - Logistics: managing large class sizes, handling routine student emails ("when's the assignment due? Why did I lose points?"), handling things like students adding and dropping, scheduling - Routine grading: full auto-grade subjects which can be checked by a computer like math and chemistry problems and multiple-choice/short-answer, partially auto-grade and streamline (e.g. grammar checking, ML analysis) subjects which require quality like essays and presentations - Teaching students basic concepts who don't have issues with said concepts, with tools like Khan Academy By "fun parts" I mean: - Teaching students who need extra help, which online tools like Khan Academy can't provide - Teaching students who have extra questions and are genuinely interested - Doing fun things like in-class experiments (chemistry), demonstrating math problems - Assigning and grading fun projects like student experiments and creative things - Handling emotional students (while ensuring the teacher's safety). This isn't really a "fun part" more in that it's something technology can't do Most of all, teachers should be able to focus on teaching more specialized seminars and electives for smaller, more interested students. The big general classes (e.g. Algebra, English, Spanish) can be managed 95% by existing technology, where students are in large lecture halls or online (at home and/or in monitored classrooms) and use software like Khan Academy and Canvas. I doubt this is any worse than the current system, especially considering the state of public school today, because I'm sure this online software can teach much better than a bored-out-of-their-mind average teacher. Except in the 5% of cases where it can't, hence the wall of text I posted above.