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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some kids read for fun.  But I think it has dropped a ton.  But that doesn’t really explain the drop in math.  Sadly, and I know this will offend, but the “professionalization” of teaching has not improved the education of our children.  So it’s kind of a failed profession.  The best teachers are those who are passionate about the subjects they teach but so often administrators want to see BA in education plus masters in education and that doesn’t mean that person will be passionate when asked to teach history.  I know a lot of very nice and smart people who dislike history a lot.  Better to have a history buff teach history because authentic enthusiasm can be very engaging.  [/quote]

History teacher here in a private school without the Masters in Ed but a lot of other life experience and 10 years in the classroom.  What teachers are trained to do often has nothing to do with showing kids that you care about the material so they should too.

They get lesson plans and exercises and gimmicks and stations and on and on.  No one ever seems to teach them how to reach students with human to human rapport.

History can be terribly boring when taught badly, which is mostly is.[/quote]

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