Anybody find teachers making students do unnecessary things?
February 142010
So sometimes you have great teachers. And sometimes you don’t.
I find that teachers that make their students do things a little much, like coloring maps in social studies, or making power points on subjects that the class already goes over(without much other research) are simply useless. I mean, when are we actually going to need to know how to color the area where the Mayans existed orange?
There are just so many things that really are unnecessary, and I don’t understand why teachers make kids do these things.
Do they just run out of things to do in their lesson plans or something?
sometimes they just follow the suggestions in the teacher’s edition. I ignore a lot of childish things that are great with children but don’t really work that well with teenagers.
February 14th, 2010 at 6:22 am
I’ve noticed this for a long time. While in high school, I’ve some teachers who make us do absurd things, such as performing plays to remember vocab words or making masks to recreate the "Renaissance experience" Although some can be fun, I find most of them completely childish. I would much rather work on bookwork, and learn something in a more mature way.
Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if most teachers did these easy to do, arts and crafts activities to simply boost their students’ grades.
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February 14th, 2010 at 6:48 am
sometimes they just follow the suggestions in the teacher’s edition. I ignore a lot of childish things that are great with children but don’t really work that well with teenagers.
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February 14th, 2010 at 7:02 am
Ya might not need to know how to color that area orange, but you WILL need to know where that area was…and you will REMEMBER it better, because you were ACTIVE in learning it (ie coloring that area).
YOU are not the teacher. YOU did not go to school to learn how students learn. YOU might be able to get along without all the tiny steps, but the CLASS needs them.
No. No teacher EVER runs out of lesson plans…for the most part, they run out of time to cover the material that the curriculum demands they cover. They, however, DO have to teach so that ALL the students have a chance to learn the material, and because you and your friends are the smart ones, and don’t need it all, you don’t get that there are other kids in the class that wouldn’t learn it at all, if it weren’t gone over several times.
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February 14th, 2010 at 7:10 am
because teachers need to teach to all their students…some of which learn in different ways. i know when i was in high school coloring maps always helped me becuase i would associate a color with a different group, using your example …if i was taking a test i would remember the the mayans would be orange and id remember where on the map i had colored orange. i always found these projects more helpful than simply reading out of a book. but there are also kids who find reading more helpful so teachers try to have a good combination of teaching methods so every individual student can learn to the best of their ability.
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