On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > Teacher become insecure when the students move faster than they do. It can > create resistance. My hope is that they will learn too.
Half my family is teachers (both parents and one of my sisters... I guess you could call my brother a teacher, also, if phys-ed instruction counts), so I have a general idea about this kind of issue. Ultimately, I suspect that the best way of handling this issue involves better training for instructors. People need to understand that the role of an instructor is to teach the student how to learn. When teachers take it on themselves to prevent students from learning? That is bad. > I lived through a sabotage of programs that were too progressive. > It was not pretty. Maybe teachers and parents (who also are > threatened) can be helped not to feel uncomfortable when they do not > understand what their grade school children are learning. The trick > is to empower the children to teach and encourage the adults to make > it clear they welcome and enjoy it when their children teach them > (teachers, too). I do not know how to solve this issue. But I feel that when the parents and teachers are sabotaging the lives of the children they are supposed to be caring for, it is time to provide alternate means for the children to learn to deal with the important issues in their lives. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
