William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
an outsider's view.
good:
lockers
senior skip day
choices
being part of a pop-culture cliche (best years/worst years - making it through...)
worst:
underfunded
teaching towards tests, not learning
everyone getting a trophy
teacher's salaries
Wait, everyone gets a trophy? Where's mine? I wanna trophy!
ETA: Guess maybe I should've finished high school then, huh?
erika! I got to watch "Three Men and Adena" (sp?) the other day, for the very first time. I couldn't believe it when it ended, it seemed like minutes. I have to see it again, I'm sure I missed half the layers, there were so many. I *love* H:LotS.
I'm kind of too much of an Ed to date an Ed
Hmm, I can see that. My friend who liked him ended up marrying somebody completely unlike him IRL.
underfunded
teaching towards tests, not learning
teacher's salaries
msbelle, are you sure you're not talking about the Israeli school system?
You know, my (English) high school taught towards tests, in a big way. I blame the tests, not the basic motivation. Because, when the test involves writing off the cuff chemistry essays, I damned well had to have learnt the material to ace the test.
This is why our state tests (in English) are geared toward skills instead of content. It allows us to teach "to the test" without sacrificing curricula. I would be teaching the same skills in general.
The Supreme Court makes it legal to buy wine by mail!
lalalalala... dances around in circles in hopes of being able to buy Nashoba wine again...
I was thinking about talking about the issue of trust and expectations -- if you expect students to act like five-year-olds and not care about their education, well...
I was reminded of it this morning when someone posted to their lj about gigantic "Do not share this CD! Music-sharing is stealing! Bad! Evil! We will catch you!" warnings, and how irritating they were.
I don't know how it happened, but I mostly missed the whole-teach-to-test phenom when I was in HS. I don't doubt it exists now, and it probably did then. I just got lucky. The funny thing is that it was especially true for the AP classes, which are designed to end in a test!
I really wonder how those teachers are coping now, and if they are just going along as usual. For the most part, they were innovative and really worked on teaching you not just the materials, but how to think critically.
Goodness gracious, doesn't anybody proofread headlines?
they were innovative and really worked on teaching you not just the materials, but how to think critically.
That's what I try to do.