Herrod, Lisa wrote:
I'm starting to see a new reality show... something like 'Rock school' but
it would be called 'standards school'
Well, although it bears no relation to Sydney, or indeed, tertiary
education, there is a high school in Victoria teaching standards-based
web design. As I think I may have mentioned on the list before, I wrote
a few courses, and even delivered some. I was teaching (whilst
supervised by a qualified teacher, of course) Year 8 students
standards-based web design - coding HTML and CSS from scratch in
Notepad. They grasped it pretty quickly, although I suppose that most
will forget it or have their knowledge corrupted by future use of
FrontPage or something
I've since moved on to a corporate job, but my father is still there
teaching a course of mine (with his own modifications) to Year 11 and 12
students
The main problem is that the kind of tutorials and articles that we all
learnt from, and the investigation and exploration we all did (and are
doing, hopefully) are completely unsuited to teaching a class full of
students. Particularly those in high-school
You want to educate the educators? Provide them with material tailored
for use in the classroom that they can use immediately
Seona wrote:
Might have considered getting into teaching myself, except that it
would mean I had to deal with students...
Actually, dealing with staff was worse! Students are easy, you just show
them cool stuff and they get excited. Staff are way too jaded for that
to work. They just want stuff that won't take up any extra time in their
day. As Andreas said, they don't have time to maintain the requisite
knowledge
Cheers
Lachlan
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