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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They expect the kids to learn the material on their own and just answer questions."

That's what teaching is.  Anything else is just entertainment.

I don't want to pay a teacher to perform the textbook.
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Teaching means presenting the information, helping students understand the information, and then expanding on that information. Teaching is not sending kids home with a math text book and telling them to read the text book and learn the material on their own with the help of videos. I have taught. There is material you can assign for students to read and digest and then use that material to dive into a topic but you have to make sure that the students understood what they read first. You don't move into the more advanced material until the students understand the reading.

The reports on this site and in other places is that TJ Math Teachers are expecting kids to teach themselves the math concepts for the class with very little help. You can assign reading and not lecture on everything in the reading but in subjects like math and science you need to review what was read and make sure the students understand the concept and process. If they didn't then you need to teach it to them. That is your job. It is not entertainment, it is educating. If everyone could learn from doing the reading then we wouldn't need teachers in the classroom.[/quote]

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