Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their confidence, then take their exam.
How is it hubris to say that not every student learns the same way? For real? No it’s hubris to say that everybody should have to learn the same way and you’re fucked if you don’t learn well.
Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.
“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive
Nobody said phonics is a perfect method, but against evidence showing it does substantially better at getting kids to learn how to read, you rocked up to contribute what amounts to “This is bullshit, because I didn’t like it as a kid.” We aren’t discussing how private tutors work, but how to get the public school system to get the best results in aggregate.
Every kid learns differently, sure. But we can’t even staff schools at adequate levels to hold decent group instruction, much less provide tailored education for each student, so your reply about everything being wrong until every every child has their unique idiosyncrasies accounted for comes across as a bit daft in the context of the discussion.
Yes. And yes.
But you don’t want to talk about that it even says in the paragraph after the one you quoted that it didn’t work everywhere so what’s the point of even trying to talk to you?
How is it hubris to say that not every student learns the same way? For real? No it’s hubris to say that everybody should have to learn the same way and you’re fucked if you don’t learn well.
Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.
“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive
So you made an assumption and then instead of just asking me about it decided to be an asshole? Wow…
Nobody said phonics is a perfect method, but against evidence showing it does substantially better at getting kids to learn how to read, you rocked up to contribute what amounts to “This is bullshit, because I didn’t like it as a kid.” We aren’t discussing how private tutors work, but how to get the public school system to get the best results in aggregate.
Every kid learns differently, sure. But we can’t even staff schools at adequate levels to hold decent group instruction, much less provide tailored education for each student, so your reply about everything being wrong until every every child has their unique idiosyncrasies accounted for comes across as a bit daft in the context of the discussion.
I’m genuinely baffled at how you managed to pull that from what I posted.
More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?
Yes. And yes. But you don’t want to talk about that it even says in the paragraph after the one you quoted that it didn’t work everywhere so what’s the point of even trying to talk to you?
I don’t believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you’re a dog.