Do all teachers do their job to the best of their abilities or do they sit behind their desk waiting to be paid for telling the kids to teach themselves?
I can't speak for other teachers, but I try to come up with new prjects every year. I think the relationship between a class and their teacher goes both ways. Are the students coming prepared? Do they participate? I think sometimes it is necessary for students to "teach" themselves...but not always.
I personally believe that its better to have both. I believe that us as students need to actually at least skim the chapter and do a little extra work on their own. The teachers that make us teach ourselves are only trying to prepare us for college and I see that now since I'm taking a seated class. Every week we have a chapter to read before the next class, and then when that class comes we have a group discussion and she goes over the main points to just summarize the chapter. She expects us to at least have a brief understanding of the chapter and also ask her questions on the things that we don't understand. With that being said, I think that a combination of both us teaching ourselves and teachers teaching us, is the right way to go.
I can't speak for other teachers, but I try to come up with new prjects every year. I think the relationship between a class and their teacher goes both ways. Are the students coming prepared? Do they participate? I think sometimes it is necessary for students to "teach" themselves...but not always.
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ReplyDeleteI personally believe that its better to have both. I believe that us as students need to actually at least skim the chapter and do a little extra work on their own. The teachers that make us teach ourselves are only trying to prepare us for college and I see that now since I'm taking a seated class. Every week we have a chapter to read before the next class, and then when that class comes we have a group discussion and she goes over the main points to just summarize the chapter. She expects us to at least have a brief understanding of the chapter and also ask her questions on the things that we don't understand. With that being said, I think that a combination of both us teaching ourselves and teachers teaching us, is the right way to go.
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