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[quote=Anonymous][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]

My observations are such a silly show. How do I incorporate technology? How are students teaching themselves? (For those who aren’t teachers: the highest ratings go to teachers who don’t actually teach. The idea is to get students teaching themselves and others. Teachers should be the “guide on the side, not the sage on the stage.” You can imagine how well that works in a classroom of unmotivated teenagers, especially when you can’t give them engaging material since the curriculum stinks.) It’s absolutely ridiculous.[/quote]

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