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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:26 pm
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How most college professors teach you is how it should be. But it's so hard because pre-college, there is larger variety of students. So, they try to teach general education. Standardized tests are just the easy way out with so many students. Yes, there could be improvements of course, but these tests are just a way for them to evaluate us easily and give us something to work for. No, they're not gonna be a real measurement of your knowledge, but you're busting your a** for these tests to get somewhere more worthwhile later. High School and below is to make you look good on paper and get you into college, where you can learn things to help you in whatever your desired career. You learn more practical things, for your intended field. Anyways, I know longer know what I've said here, but it made sense at some point I think.
Anyways, another thought. There are sometimes where there get to be so many people you have to tack stuff on to separate one from another. It's why GPA, class standing, PT scores and such affect where I go in the Navy as an officer. Well, basically if I get to choose what community I go to. Sure, there are some qualities that have nothing to do with me being an officer, but they gotta choose us some how. That also made more sense in my mind I think, but it is relevant, I think.
Ok, I'm done. It's late and I'm just ranting incoherently.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:49 pm
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Sentama Lin It really depends on what work is given. Call me an idealist (though I'm speaking from a college experience that taught courses this way), but if students were given a workload that was challenging enough for them, and relevant to their interest in the subject area, the students would do them simply because they are interested. Giving students a gawd-awful amount of busy work accomplishes nothing, and only gives headaches for the students and the teachers (personal experience as a teacher's assistant for Calculus, as a student, and as a Music Teacher In Training). Most importantly, there has to be a clear reason for the work given to students. Meaningless work is meaningless, and isn't realistic since all work in the real world has a purpose for the group that the students work with. I agree completely. That's why I decided to home school my children, and found a curriculum whose primary stated objective was to foster the desire to learn and to express oneself clearly. I always felt rather short-changed on those two during my own schooling, and if the internet is any indication I wasn't the only one.
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:46 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:15 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:29 am
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I'm going to agree with he general statement here that students in America are becoming lazy. More often than not itseems that education is left up to students and that in order to recieve a good education the students have to seek it out themselves. Speaking as a student that went through juniour high in advanced academic classes and got good enough grades to get into a city wide magnet school. All of my classes are, by default, honors level classes. That said, I'm still lazy and I still find that a good deal of the work isn't challenging enough. There's no real way to get an education in this city without trying for it, as a lot of the schools have become nothing but crime centers. Lunch periods, even at my school, have become black markets, and there are LARGE gang presences in all of the schools.
Education, despite being the most important thing in life, is becoming a joke, and something that you have to look for now. You won't find it easily, more often than not it's something that you have to spend endless amounts of time at home acquiring for yourself. Teachers now want nothing more than to get their jobs done quickly, because their paychecks aren't big enough to deal with some of the insane behaviour in schools and none of the students want to try. THey have no motivation.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:51 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:37 pm
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