Teachers: What would surprise us most about what kids know these days...?
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their curiosity , challenging the old custom and their enthusiasm for knowing more
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Children learn in spite of their teachers....The first thing I was taught at teacher training. \n\ndrilling is fine provided you understand what you are learning. The multiplication tables are a good example of this. We used to memorise those tables like a poem. Did it help? Yes becasue they provided us with quick answers when dealing with more complex issues. \n\nThe fact is that there are some things you just need to know. You can either make the effort to remember it (and there are lots of techniques for that) or you can look it up in a book every time you need to know.
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Child day care\nWrite textbooks on teaching\nTutor childen\n\nThere are teaching positions in industry, for example teachers of computer skills, but the audience is not elementary school aged children
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not sure but cellphones and the internet sure do seem to have helped them travel faster. The younger generation is so inter-connected all it takes is only little spark of a rumor true or false and it just grows out of control and it's like everybody knows. I remember this thing a teacher did once to show how gossip travels and changes along the way. He whispered a rumor about someone in the first student's ear and told him to whisper into the next and so on and so on. By the time it got through all 30 kids it was a totally different rumor. Kids just added stuff and changed the whole message. It was a lot worse and totally untrue. I guess he was trying to teach kids not to spread rumors. They can really hurt people and there are usually not true.
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I don't have any, but I'm sure you can find unresearched, unproven "factoids" (that means unsubstantiated or unproven non-facts) from Teacher's Unions or any State Department of Education website...they do, afterall, have a lot to lose if too many people figure out that they're doing a horrible job "educating" the students of our Nation...and then more parents decide to allow their children to learn at home and in the big open world we live in! Good Luck in your search!\nHOMESCHOOLING ROCKS! LET LEARNING FLOURISH! ALLOW KIDS TO BE KIDS AND LEARN NATURALLY!
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There are so many, it's hard to know where to start.  I guess I'd have to go with:\n\n"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
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Please teach! Education is history, in all areas of the curricula, history plays an important role. I hope you enjoy working with children.
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have you seen some of the crap that the kids come home with now? im only 19 and its a lot harder then when i was in school which wasnt very long ago... my sister asks her teacher for help and you know what her teacher says? figure it out yourself, im busy. how are kids to learn when the ones paid to teach them, dont!!
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Modern education hampers original thinking because teachers have to teach to standardized tests.  They are only feeding our kids what they need in order to pass the tests.  They have no more time left for higher level thinking.  It is a tragedy!
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Teaching kids in school not to be smartasses?
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Listen to the music on the radio: what are they singing about? \nWatch music videos: how are the people in the videos dressed and what movements are they making? \nWatch TV shows and movies.\nRead teenage magazines: what are the articles about?\n\nYou will see, hear, and read about sex, sex, sex.\n\nThese things influence children.
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well that has always been around; its just that theres more of them now.  Most likely their parents don't really care what their kids do or the kids usually get their way in one form or the other so they end up like that.  But what's really scaring  me is how smart some of them are getting.  I was tutoring some children the other day and when i was flipping through their book to see what theyve been covering i was shocked to see how advanced their education was! I mean i remember doing those things too but not at their grade level! hahah i'm scared that when i have a kid he/she will be smarter than me heheh
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Depends on the school. Where I teach we usually tell bad jokes and talk about tv programs, sports and sometimes politics. Some teachers talk about students, others talk about their family or the chores they have to complete at home over the weekend.\n\nIt is nice to have adult time when you spend most of your day around crazy kids.
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If 1/2 the schools in the US thinks yes, then teachers are not doing well in the history aspect of education. Now, these kids need to know their rights, and the rights of others. I thought schools get taught the Constitution and bill of rights. At least I would expect thee civil war to be mentioned before 6th grade, the rest would follow. Freedom of speech, FREEDOM OF PRESS, freedom of religion, and so on. With this knowledge one can understand why America is America and not new great Brittan or some British ruled country paying taxes on land we are not living and harvesting from. ( ha, nowadays, this country is doing all kinds of illegal activities. No wonder why 1/2 the youth is lost and confused)
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Our actions can have effects that travel and/ or we may be unaware of how things affect those around us. As a teacher, I wonder at how i'm affecting these kids lives. Many really like me and i wonder if they'll remember me for a long time (like i remember some of my teachers) and how much do i shape them.
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How was school today?\nDid you like your friends?\nWhat did you played today?\nDo you like your teacher?\nSing that song you learned...\n\nAs much as you get and understand about their world as much as you find topics that help to establish a conversation, and believe me it could be much more interesting than this!
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Because usually the teacher knows some things and the kids want to or are supposed to learn those things.\n\nThe art of it is in HOW the info is transmitted. I think its best when the kids are into it asking many many endless questions. The teacher can tell what he or she knows, do fieldtrips, get experts to come in and talk, and show the kids how to find answers and info on their own.