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Comment on Education, Lateral Thinking and the Google Ngram Viewer by read more here

read more here — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:33:58 +0000

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Comment on The Family; A Serious Decision by Olivia Slama

Olivia Slama — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:14:49 +0000

I will have to inform my four month old daughter of the curse I placed upon her by having her at a young age. You can’t expect a young person to raise “their children with love, care, and discipline…”? TV shows, such as MTV’s “Teen Mom” give young mothers a poor representation by taking the girls who will never grow up, and telling society that this is the face of every young mother. It is true that many children are raised in an environment that is not suitable for teaching them to be responsible adults, but it is naive and insulting to state that all young mothers are simply children parenting children, and that all of them provide this poor environment. Young mothers are women (yes, women- the individuals on television are the children) who learn responsibility early in life. They are women who jump into adulthood early and do everything they can possibly do to provide for their child. They are women who love their child like they have loved nothing before. Anyone who says a young mother is incapable of these things is too easily persuaded by the television, and they need to spend more time in the real world with real young women.

Comment on Education: A teacher’s response… by Wisconsin Speech Therapy Jobs

Wisconsin Speech Therapy Jobs — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:53:51 +0000

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Comment on Education; Teacher Cheaters in Pennsylvania! by learningbuzz

learningbuzz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:51:46 +0000

That is so true. Again we are going back to the “study for the test” mentality that is instilled by teachers in their classrooms. If you don’t get the score, you’re out! The teacher suffers too because of one number that doesn’t meet someone else’s standard (mostly government). The students learn that the abilities to think critically, analyze and question have absolutely no meaning because a single score is more important. A great example of this is Asian students – they have the perfect scores on all the test necessary to get into a North American university. And they do… Then everyone realizes that they have little common sense, little analytical skills, social and communication skills because all they did at school and the “extra” private tutoring academies is … study for the test! Nothing else matters.

This needs to change…

I went the Sir Ken Robinson’s talk in Vancouver, BC and he told a story of a student he talked to. The student had just finished a university course. He asked her: “So what did you get out of this course?”. She replied: “I got a B.” He smiled and said: “No, this is what your professor got out of your assignments. But what did you actually got out of this course?” Student couldn’t think of a single thing. The picture is pretty ugly.

Comment on Education; It’s time for a new school model – STEM by learningbuzz

learningbuzz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:33:24 +0000

You are making a great point about parents not involved in their children’s education and instilling the sense of the winner.

I have heard so many parents say: “I drove him to school, now it’s the teachers’ job to keep him busy.” How about teaching your child that when they enter that classroom, they should have respect for their teacher? I can go on forever on that topic… I just don’t know when the school became an excuse for lack of parent involvement in children’s education. Parents think that as long as the child is at school, they don’t need to do anything. The attitude is: “If my child is falling behind, it’s the school’s fault.”

And then I have also heard so many teachers tell parents that their children are doing great at school and everything is going fine, only for the parents to find out at the end of the school year, that their kids have had problems all along and no one told them. A friend of mine learned that her son couldn’t recognize some of the letters of the alphabet at the end of Grade 1, but throughout the school year, the teacher was telling her that he was doing better than most kids in his class and he’s very smart. When she met with the teacher to talk about her son’s performance, the teacher started telling her that her son had been struggling all year to grasp the material. When my friend asked the teacher why she wasn’t notified about these issues, the teacher said that she didn’t want the boy to think that the teacher is putting him down and that he’s not doing well. It’s ridiculous. He needs to know he’s not doing well, so he can put in the effort to do well. How else would he know if he’s reaching the expectations?

Comment on Education; The Disenthrallment of the Quiet Past by Sandra Gunn

Sandra Gunn — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:39:24 +0000

Thank you Zelda – it has been a long slog though the mills of education but we are making progress. I just finished a book, “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, and one sentence in the book made me look again at my goals and how to communicate them to the world. “WE ARE THE AUTHORS OF OUR NEXT MOMENT” – do not cling to the “methods” of the past. Go boldly into your next moment!

Great to know you are out there.
Sandra Gunn

Comment on Education; The Disenthrallment of the Quiet Past by Zelda Sheldon

Zelda Sheldon — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:45:18 +0000

Hi Sandra, great blog post. And as one of the cheersquad for Ken Robinson’s ardent passion for education revolution I love meeting other cheerers around the world. As I’m currently in R & D for an early childhood music and movement curriculum based on true child centred creativity nurturing through play I’m running into all kinds of wonderful firebrands for education revolution.

Ken and Abe Lincoln are spot on – it is chaotic and I so often want to cling to the comfort of tried and tested ways of old – as all too often I’m scared of making mistakes as I stumble forward into new uncharted territory – but it’s so rewarding to see the smiles of confidence on kids faces as they discover their creative power.

Great to read your words.
Zelda Sheldon
http://www.ukulelebabymusic.com

Comment on Nation Builders; In Defense of Teachers by fornormalstepfathers

fornormalstepfathers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:32:33 +0000

Unfortunately, teachers are always “bad guys.” Only someone who has never been in a classroom can complain about teachers’ holidays, vacations, unions and everything else.Parents often seem to think that it is a teacher’s job to make sure kids turn out fine; students see teachers as teaching -machines and are genuinely surprised that teachers have feelings, problems, health issues, well anything that a human being can have; principal demands results and you sometimes have to fight for any innovation you would like to introduce to the classroom. I agree with your common sense approach! My common sense tells me that not every person is cut out to be a teacher and there is no real way to teach a person who is not, to be a good one. Smaller classrooms!!! You can’t expect one teacher to pay attention to 29 students at the same time and treat every student the way is best for this individual. Parents should not expect a teacher to do it all for them!
When it comes to being a teacher abroad, it is not as rosy as your article leads to believe. Usually, it is a low-paid, highly regulated position, at least in the countries I am familiar with,such as Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Germany.
Oh, I just ramble and better stop

Comment on Nation Builders; In Defense of Teachers by Sandra Gunn

Sandra Gunn — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:43:39 +0000

If teachers had to do this in America, there would be no time to teach. Statistics are reality.

Comment on Nation Builders; In Defense of Teachers by fornormalstepfathers

fornormalstepfathers — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:50:46 +0000

In South Korea, according to my Korean friend, who teaches in a middle school there, teachers have to write letters of apologies to their students’ parents for the students’ poor grades.