billisonboard
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Post by billisonboard on Sept 26, 2012 16:25:08 GMT -5
... hmm, ok. when i think teacher, i think of the person standing in front of a classroom. when i think educator, i think of the person standing in front of the classroom. I think the same of a teacher. I think of educators standing along side students.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 17:20:23 GMT -5
I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. Mark Twain i don't really use the word "schooling". seems kinda antiquated to me. do you draw a distinction between "educators" and "teachers", oped? They can be used interchangably i'd think. I do think of 'educator' as more of 'facilitator' , where as 'teacher' is more 'lecturer' of a term to me.. Anyway, education can come from all over and every one, not just a 'teacher' ... (unless you are generically calling all things and all people a 'teacher', i guess) Anyway, i don't care what you call it ... Basically I just distinguish between learning (being educated), and school.
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Post by billisonboard on Sept 27, 2012 9:22:14 GMT -5
i think so. education should foster creativity, and personal strengths, not try to create little robots which do menial tasks in response to authority or need (as defined on the Maslow scale). ... .... my only point was that there are lots of home grown teaching methods that have been tried successfully on the heterogeneous American school system. we could model a program after THEM if we had the will to do so. ... So the way to "foster creativity, and personal strengths" in American youth is to have teachers deliver instruction according to a prescribed model that they have been trained to use?
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 27, 2012 11:31:22 GMT -5
i think so. education should foster creativity, and personal strengths, not try to create little robots which do menial tasks in response to authority or need (as defined on the Maslow scale). ... .... my only point was that there are lots of home grown teaching methods that have been tried successfully on the heterogeneous American school system. we could model a program after THEM if we had the will to do so. ... So the way to "foster creativity, and personal strengths" in American youth is to have teachers deliver instruction according to a prescribed model that they have been trained to use? i think if the methodology is open and flexible enough, that idea makes very good sense. my problem with NCLB is precisely that it narrows the possible outcomes for students rather than widening them.
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