This.Sean wrote: Education, at management level, is a numbers game. When I taught A-levels 10 years ago, we had targets of 90% retention for the first year and 80% at the end of two years. Not hitting those targets put your position as a teacher in jeopardy. Of course this means that the disruptive, no-chance-of-passing-the-exam students had to be kept in the class... Even at the expense of the others. Stupid fucking system designed by fucktards who have never stood in front of a class!
Teachers good, Students not so good
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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My brother had that problem. Basically, he spent an entire year on high school doing every math problem twice. Once the way the teacher demanded, so he could show he did it the "right" way (note: not once did he EVER get the correct answer this way), and once the way Mom taught him, to get the correct answer. It seems to have soured him on school for good.oldr_n_wsr wrote:Testing has it's uses, but it seems in the No Child and CC, testing has become "the preffered eval" method for both students and teachers.
I was always a good "tester" and it drove my brother crazy. (we took a lot of courses together when we went to night school to get our BSEE).
I was not good a memorizing but I was good at figuring things out. Many times the questions hinted at the answer. One just needed to notice the hint.
If I were in class and didn't know much of any math, CC may be the best way to learn. But being an old dog and having learned the way I did, it doesn't seem that way to me.
I remember having trouble with "long division" and just didn't get it. My mom showed me "short division" and I picked that up very fast. I needed to show the long division on tests so I got the answer using short division and then was able to show the work in long division.
A friend of mine almost failed math one year: he never showed his work, because he DIDN'T DO ANY! He didn't have to...he looked at the problem and knew the answer. (Dude can do just about any math, including multiplication and long division, in his head.) Came in handy when he worked as a freight broker.
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