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27 sats \ 17 replies \ @Satosora 25 Sep \ parent \ on: Generating quick mindmaps alter_native
The problem is that students dont want to develop these kind of habits.
At least my students didnt.
It's nearly impossible to teach someone who doesn't want to learn.
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haha
You should have seen their parents.
Even worse.
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No surprise there. My dad was a teacher, so I'm pretty well-versed in that world.
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One of my classes, their spelling was very bad.
So in order to leave the classroom, I made them write down each word 5 times
There were like 10 words.
They all did it, then cried to their parents.
I was told I couldnt do it again.
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I forced my students to copy Switch on 100 times the other day because I was so sick n tired of hearing them shout Off the fan
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No surprise that your homeland surpasses mine in education.
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But no Nobel prizes as yet haha
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That's tough when you don't even have 0.1% of the global population.
That doesn't seem like an unreasonable assignment. Times have changed.
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One of the things my dad and I both noticed is that students tend to rise or fall to the level of the class. When I would decide to make a class more rigorous, there was little drop off in grades. Students rose to meet the higher bar.
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