Then, how can we help
teachers do the sorts of things that do work?
Not exact matches
So often, what students seem to learn from their theology or exegesis course is that this
sort of thing is too hard to
do without the
teacher's help - so they give up trying to
do it after graduation.
I worked as the creative adult education
teacher in a psychiatric home,
doing all
sorts of wildly creative
things, before working in a creative capacity in Youth Services.
The traditional
sort of mainstream idea
of Flipped Learning is that
teachers will take what they used to
do in the classroom - you know, lecturing and presenting information to students and classroom discussions for example, and
do those
things outside the classroom.
So, we didn't use the NAPLAN data, but the academic rating scales that the
teachers use to rate the children are very strongly related to NAPLAN data, so they seem to be measuring the same
sort of things.
So it's more seamless, more supportive, and it helps actually address the issues to begin with, early on, it allows them to
do that, and so they aren't exacerbated, [they're] de-escalated and then the
teachers are less stressed and they enjoy their work more and that
sort of thing.
When Stephen Colbert demands, «If we don't cut expensive
things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and
teachers, what
sort of future are we leaving for our children?»
Measuring children's progress in learning these skills is the
sort of thing that assessments like iReady's can readily
do, and then point
teachers and parents toward learning modules that will help them take the next step.
I mean, there are
things that
teachers are coping with — changes in curriculum, uses
of technology, all those
sorts of things, on a daily basis, and
doing a magnificent job.
If you're a
teacher and you're suddenly told you have to teach this
thing called Computer Science (which you may not even know what it is really), then being able to work with familiar resources is a really easy way to get into it, rather than being told «by the way first
of all install this, buy this robot kit and get funding for this and learn how to
do that... it's not compatible...
sort that out» and so on.
Often school
teachers don't know the children have already been engaged in in early childhood centres and early childhood centres don't really know where the children are going when they go up to school in terms
of what they'll be
doing, the resources available and those
sorts of things.
And I don't mean that to be any
sort of negative
thing, but I think sometimes we shift our focus, and it's no different than a classroom
teacher obsessing over missing work or missing papers when the real value
of what a
teacher does is making that connection with a kid.
Many
teachers don't have the confidence to broach issues about prejudice or bias in case they say the wrong
thing, but they could be skilled up to
do this
sort of work.»