Alex Smith

@FaithfulMentor @heymrsbond "The best apology is CHANGED BEHAVIOR!"

@heymrsbond "Don't be sorry. Be better." Usually in response to an ingenuine apology from a student.

@AngelaStockman @Mr_Rablin Wait, me too! 😁 I am very curious about how you came to the decisions about the specific point of the research as well as your findings.

Genuine question: does anyone have evidence that supports the use of discussion boards in deepening learning? Or research around how they should be used? I’ve never had an experience where they’ve enhanced my learning, but maybe I’m just missing something.

@Mr_Rablin @aldtucker Ooo, they're not actually evaluated by the instructor? Yikes!

@aldtucker Yeah, this has been my experience. And to make matters worse, the forum tool this class is using has a little points calculator that only cares about word count and not content, so the responses are these ramblings about nothing a lot of the time.

@DunnEducation @Mr_Rablin Much appreciated!

@Mr_Rablin This might be useful: ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewconten…

@Mr_Rablin @ElleWoodsOfMyco I would much rather read and post on a discussion board, for many of the same reasons that I would rather read an article than watch a video.

@Mr_Rablin @ElleWoodsOfMyco In a zoom meeting with, say, 20 learners that lasts an hour, how often does each learner choose to contribute? What happens when they don't choose to? How engaged are learners for the rest of the time they have to be there?

@rebeccaclark26 @heymrsbond Or effectively supported/ incentivized by colleges. IF they are interested, profs can do it... but on their own time and their own dime.

@heymrsbond In other words, they don’t know what they don’t know. It’s not required.

@geonz @abbey_hc @heymrsbond Unfortunately, if they'd had better teachers in k12, their expectations of what an instructor should be able to do would be even higher. 🤔

@abbey_hc @heymrsbond RIght. Okay, so what do we do about it? Say "you should have had better HS, too bad so sad???"

@thisjanedoe @heymrsbond Exactly this. And that's not even considering what all gets dumped on adjuncts and TAs.

@heymrsbond Something I often wonder: many graduate students are TAs. What sort of training do they receive in instructional methods?

@heymrsbond All-or-nothing statements are rarely accurate, but I think it's perfectly fair to say that too many college instructors can't teach well, and ALSO that too many colleges prioritize research and publication over instruction.

@MrsHallScholars Imagine what we could accomplish if each teacher had fewer students and could spend more one on one time with each of them. 🤔

I have no idea how I got through the rest of the period. It's now going on 8 pm and I can't stop crying.

During my last class today I said "yup" in reply to one student, and did not realize that another student, who I hadn't heard, had said "she probably thinks I'm stupid" and thought the "yup" was for her. I said, "do you really think I'd say that?" Student: Honestly? Yeah. 😦

@heymrsbond Pretty much what others are saying about it being optional, but ALSO there is way more status attached to RESEARCH. Teaching is kind of a "pay your dues," and more senior profs usually teach less and less. It's "publish or perish," after all.

@Teacher2Amazing HS ELA! Staying anon because of RL harassment 🥺

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@SomeSweetVandal @NAEmmanuele THIS.

@NAEmmanuele It’s a canard for people to use when bashing schools. The same people who say this also refuse to properly fund schools.

Where did Americans get the belief that “Schools should have taught us how to do taxes?” Perhaps I’m in the minority that I don’t do my own taxes, but… why has this become a critique? Is it specifically a critique of math course sequences? Or a need for something “useful?”

@MoniseLSeward @NAEmmanuele But they don't want to provide the time or resources that it would take to do that. 🤷

@teachergrind @corvallisonian @NAEmmanuele I tell students when we're learning MLA style that the format itself isn't the main point. Rather, they're learning how to read, understand, and follow multi step directions.

@corvallisonian @NAEmmanuele Yep. I actually have had kids suggest it’s more appropriate to teach taxes in an English class lol. (And I sort of agree.)

@DIGGYRULES @FixingEducation We get nothing.

@FixingEducation We get paid $16 to use our planning time to cover classes and it is not optional. That’s not a typo. $16.00. In my old district in Florida they pay substitutes (who must have at least a bachelor degree) (11.45/hour).

𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀: WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF SUBS! 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲: Ok, we’ll make it so that anyone with a HS diploma can sub! 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁: Ok, we will pay subs more money! And yet, people are still choosing NOT to sub. 🤔