Students and Teachers

Today I was chatting with a lovely French lady who was having problems with her web page design school teacher. Apparently he talks for 90 minutes non-stop giving the students a confusion of ideas. This young lady told me she sends him detailed emails asking to clear up the confusion but of course there is no reply.

He might well be a nice guy but he certainly is not a teacher. A teacher should have two-way communication with students especially if they are asking questions. A question means "I don't know, help."

If the curriculum is about computers, then a computer should be there, in the class. This gives the student a solid mass to go with the text (or you could call it 'significance') or a label for the item being studied. It is difficult to imagine a medical lesson in a class where the lecturer is talking about doing a by-pass on a patients' heart without a heart or patient being there. It wouldn't make sense. You can't only read text and expect to know how to do something.

This type of teaching seems to be prevalent in schools and colleges probably because the teacher is lazy or is not really in tune with his or her students.

Have you ever asked yourself why students fail and why they fail more than in the previous fifty years?

The learning curse is too steep a gradient, it almost goes vertically up. There is usually a chunk of information missing which belongs on the bottom rung of the subject matter. It is a little like trying to get to the top of the ladder from half-way up. This is basically a total lack of awareness on the teachers part of what really goes on in the students head--or doesn't care.

A question for teachers; "Do your students go around in a daze or do they have a hungry look in their eyes?"

If they are in a daze they have by-passed nomenclature they do not grasp or understand. Just about every student goes past unfamiliar text with knowing about it. The hungry look means they want to find out about it and these students probably use a dictionary. The basics have to be in, in, in before the first rung.

Then you have a happy student who knows the data and can apply it.

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