Storebought
YaBB God
Posts: 4,326
|
 |
« on: September 05, 2016, 12:35:42 AM » |
|
I know it's probably off-topic and will get shat on/ignored in any event, but I will say it anyway:
I have come to a realization that the job title "teacher" is misleading and should be renamed. Instead, they should be called "assessors", since professional classroom teachers at all education levels spend most of their class day assigning tasks and their evenings assessing student performance. That much is required of them. Whether the teacher demonstrates to the students in class the task that he/she will eventually grade them on is under question -- there is no rule saying they must, but "good teachers" generally do and "bad teachers" don't, or can't.
As such, classroom teachers are not required to actually teach anything. Teaching is left for the parents or the caregivers of young students, otherwise to tutors.
School systems in foreign countries, especially in Asia, recognize the true assessment nature of classroom teaching, but we in the US don't. We simply expect too much out of them, using them as ersatz guidance councilors, mental health practitioners ... or just as baby sitters and lion tamers, and then become disappointed at the fully expected result.
|
