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Comment on Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn: Leveling Students by Trauma Response by Elise Naramore

Elise Naramore — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:32:15 +0000

This is such a useful framing! I came across your website as I was searching for AP Physics 2 materials. Your resources are super-helpful; thank you for making them available. But this post is spectacular.

Comment on How Did Teaching Get So Hard? by Mr. Bigler

Mr. Bigler — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 04:00:47 +0000

In reply to Janet Lake. We more or less tried that model when the students returned to the classroom from distance learning. The buzzword is "blended learning". Most of us learned that students are much less invested when they're watching lessons, whether it's in a Zoom meeting with their teacher on the other end or a knowledgeable content expert. This means that even when they do have an expert at the other end of the Zoom link, they get much less out of the lesson.

Comment on How Did Teaching Get So Hard? by Janet Lake

Janet Lake — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:29:17 +0000

We learned during distance learning that one teacher can post lessons and Zoom lessons that hundreds of students can access at once. I predict the future of education will include a few knowledgeable content experts and elearning specialists who manage the lessons for classes of hundreds, and then teachers assigned to a small cohort of students who will be responsible for in-person meetings with students and their families to provide individualized coaching, mentoring, and planning. Everything students need to learn is online. Education needs to adapt to change the role of a classroom teacher to either an elearning designer or a personal trainer (so to speak), not to try to maintain the unreasonable demands teachers face today of being everything to all students in every class they teach.

Comment on How Did Teaching Get So Hard? by Paul F. Scott

Paul F. Scott — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:06:40 +0000

Your diagnosis of “fight, flight, or freeze” hits the nail on the head. I was puzzled and frustrated as to why my students ( U. S. History, 11th graders) seemed to refuse to take advantage of the opportunities I presented for make -up work and extra credit.

Comment on Wise Fools by Carolyn Edwards

Carolyn Edwards — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:21:20 +0000

My experience with administrators parallels yours. I taught high school Spanish and French for 38 years, and I also concurrently taught at junior college. So many became administrators to escape the pressures and demands of teaching, while also earning much higher pay. Even if one is not an administrator, if one is out of the classroom for five years, in my experience, the general nature of students has changed quite a bit and one has to start as a freshman to learn about those changes; one still will be able to rely on teaching background. I taught in five districts and 10 schools, because sometimes I taught a split assignment between schools. My impressions were the same at each.