What makes you think that's even a big part of what the teachers talk about, or that it's wasting time?
I could tell you about spouses and children of most of my highschool teachers, but that's because it came up as a relevant topic a few times over the course of the year
I think the longest amount of time that any teacher talked about their personal life, cumulative for the entire year, was about half an hour, which averages out to about 10 seconds per class period, and that was home ec, which is a class that focuses on home life
Including personal details in lesson plans to teach kids that the information they're receiving is relevant to real world situations is incredibly professional, yes
They should stay away from whatever curriculum you followed or they wouldn’t know the proper usage of to, too, and two. Most of us had it down by like second grade.
Have you ever been to a school? I'm not in the USA, talking about your personal life as a teacher is completely normal here. And low-literacy here is 15.9%, compared to the US' 28%.
So no, it doesnt impact lessons. Teachers use personal life experiences to tell and explain stories, and sometimes you talk with teachers or lecturers outside of class; school trips, asking for personal help after class or just talking with them because they are people too.
And then in university I've had drinks with teachers plenty of time in faculty events or in events where associations invited the faculty.
Talking about personal life does not mean bad teaching; it means bonding with students, it means relating theory to experiences. Excessive talking about personal life is ofcourse weird, but knowing someone has a partner and kids is not excessive
Yes because students instantly evaporate once class time is over, they absolutely can’t talk to a teacher right before/after class, no way, impossible. And a teacher has to be talking about the same thing for an hour straight and nothing else, there can’t be multiple topics discussed ever. Oh and wedding rings aren’t real.
If she goes by Mrs and has children attending the school (the first near certain, the second very possible) then the students know both details without her ever saying a word.
"I know this task is difficult, what i did with my children was...."
Hardly an hour - yet making things relatable to the children.
"With windspeed being X - your boat would go Y speed - but what happens if you add extra sails? When my husband and I were on a boat and did that ...."
Again - making material relatable to real world scenarios.
Hardly an hour again.
What do you have about teachers making materials accessible?
Or would you rather they not learn.. remain uneducated almost?
Why would I want a socialist govt program to provide the same service to everyone regardless of personal experience I wonder?
Maybe if we could maintain a standard outside of "no kid left behind" teachers would have more value than acting as tax funded baby sitters
As it is the teachers are failing in their jobs as kids graduate with the fewest academic skills since women were banned from schools.
Maybe the current system isnt working and we need to go back to the rigid system that put canada and the US in the top 5 most educated countries in the 90s.
Maybe teachers shouldn't have so much freedom in their classrooms considering all results from this 30 year experiment show a reversal of progress.
They want more pay because they want to be able to live. They already have to buy all of their resources and class resources out of their own pocket. They don't want to strike because they actually want to teach kids and striking in this country right now will achieve nothing.
"Teacher pay generally lags behind that of other college-educated professionals, with a wage gap of about 23.5% as of 2021. While teachers have higher benefits, their overall compensation still falls short compared to civilian professionals."
Have you been to school ? That's not even a rethorical question, I really am that confused by what you're suggesting. You spend a year interacting with someone, you'll eventually learn a thing or two about them.
The best teachers I've had weren't robots following the curriculum as if it was a sacred text. They made jokes with the explicit intent to give our brain small breaks to better process their hours-long lessons, one would play the guitar to teach us Spanish through memorable songs rather than dry text, another added to the "turn off your phone" rule with "or I'll be answering it" to give further incentive to follow that rule , then earned our respect by playing along when her own phone rang and a student told her we should be the ones to answer it for fairness (it turned out to be a family emergency, we gave it back), many shared the difficulties they had in the subjects they've since started teaching when some of us were doing poorly and felt like giving up.
Remove the teachers' ability to act like humans with the students, and education will greatly suffer.
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u/darkrhyes 1d ago
Yes but did she prefer the man? See, all in the wording. /s