Thursday, July 29, 2010

a brief teacher rant

"I don't want to tell my students what I think they need to know, I want them to discover what they need to know so they can take it to the next level." -a woman I work with at A&T this summer.

I don't think its fair, as a science teacher, to expect my students, who have so few experiences, to discover all the things discovered by Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Watson, Crick, Darwin, and Curie. That expectation may be the cause of their frustration. I am a teacher...isn't it my job to impart knowledge?

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