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[quote=Anonymous][quote] I posted on DCUM about three months ago that I still lecture and use textbooks. I was criticized and insulted for two pages because I’m a bad teacher who doesn’t follow modern science about how students learn. I don’t teach elementary school; I teach AP courses to 12th graders.

[b]It doesn’t matter what teachers do. We are going to be considered lazy, dumb, ineffective, etc. [/b]

As for your comment that “most teachers” don’t have this knowledge: we do! We just are told to teach using the latest fads created by “instructional experts”. [/quote]

And when I get observed by administrators, they are looking to see how I am “integrating technology.” This justifies the employment of our technology integration teacher, and I am criticized if I have elementary students simply read and write (“have them make a video! They can narrate it instead and choose image off Google!”). Sure there’s a place for that kind of thing, but there will be plenty of time to learn those skills AFTER they have foundational skills mastered.[/quote]

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