Sounds like my kind of professor. Too bad he isn't getting support.One of my engineering profs would never answer a question directly, instead he would ask you questions. When I was a freshman I couldn't for the life of me understand why he just wouldn't answer my questions. Often times I'd leave his office in anger and no answers. It took me longer than it should've to realize he wasn't there to spoon feed answers(my high school teachers) but teach me how to find the answers myself. Last I heard he was getting reprimanded by the school because not enough kids are passing his classes but a large percentage are not even turning in assignments.
Teaching to the certification test has fostered this style.This describes my experience with many "proprietary" IT classes by software companies and even in some IUPUI IT courses.
i.e. I once took a week long Windows MSCE class. Everytime I asked why something was shown to do a certain way the only answers I ever got was "don't ask why, just know how". But if I don't understand "why" I'm doing something I have no way to figure out "how" to apply it in a different situation.
Yeah, no direction and the teachers themselves haven't a clue either. My girlfriends' grand kids were trying to get something to work (submit an answer) on their chromebooks for an assignment. Since I'm the "IT guy" I was asked to take a look.Yeah, there's no little to no direction. They've got our school doing split attendance; half go Monday-Tuesday, Wednesday the school is closed for cleaning, and Thursday-Friday the other half attend.
I feel like the simplest solution would be for them to live stream each class for the kids attending from home, but there's no interaction on the off days. They just have worksheets and assignments on the home page.
Well stated. Very much agree that work was done much earlier than typically allotted for. The workbooks came in handy. We subscribed to this as well (super fun actually, takes about 2 hours to do.) It can be a periodical and not all at once, something like $15/mo.Nice write up Ruger.
It has been stressful for all involved. Having one in preschool and the other in 2nd grade, I've seen their frustration with eLearning and the overall structure changes that come with it.
Teachers are stretched thin as ever and it has to feel absolutely exhausting. Listening to an eLearning day with my 2nd grader, it just equated to herding cats. Kids trying to talk over each other, asking questions about things just said and overall just not having the attention span necessary.
The other item of note with our eLearning experience has been that class lasts a lot shorter than a regular day at school. All school work is done within 2.5 hours when doing eLearning. So adding in other age appropriate work books has helped with keeping the kids occupied after initial work is done, so they don't go into TV/Game mode. Trying to keep them from turning into couch potatoes while I try to get all my work done from home.
I've learned that I'm not a good teacher but I will absolutely keep working at it for my kids sake. All we can do to be there for them.
It was both a frightening and enlightening revelation. Most are glorified herders. Yes, it's a difficult job. But it's also the most important. Most teachers I've met have such a ''this is BS, you try it for a day" attitude. Really tweaks my melons.All 3 of the terrorists are doing the "E" learning thing.
Their mother is seeing just how inept most ALL OF THE TEACHERS ACTUALLY ARE. She is getting organized to address this.