By George Josserme
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I've been blessed by a profession that took me to live in several countries all of which gave me chance to learn. Gaining valid knowledge has been to me an important matter, I have always been concerned with my kids' education, and how well rather than how much they learn. It is that difference between "how well" and "how much" that lead me to disagree with systems that I encountered, and that includes the U.S.A. and Canada.
Educational systems ~from elementary through high school and all the way to college~ fail at the foundation of a "the teaching-learning process."
There seems to be very few parents realizing and comprehending
how critically important it is to have not only well prepared and
skilled teachers knowledgeable in one subject or science, but
teachers who must inescapably be proficient when it comes
to execute something decisive and crucial: "how to teach"
In my years of high school, I had a Science teacher known by the nickname of Mr. Why. His real name was Professor Consentino. This man conceived and mastered applying a principle I have never seen used so proficiently by another teacher anywhere during my decades of observations.
His principle was that if a teacher has normally intelligent students and they fail gaining knowledge, it is clear and revealing that it is the teacher the one failing at passing on knowledge instead of normally intelligent students unable to learn. It was so clear to me that this man had superb qualities to realize that any teacher can identify winners, but only those in an elite turn a regular student into a winner.
Mr. Why's classes were far from boring monologs. He systematically turned his classes in enticing, grabbing, and visible disclosures of how nature works. This man filled a great deal of his time in class showing his students daily events where we could unmistakenly witness and experience laws of physics being applied by nature itself. He successfully achieved for us to get inspired, and to understand his teachings crystal clear.
This teacher's nickname was the result of his most famous question: Why ?
Should one student enunciate any law of physics, he can be anticipated to ask him Why. It was not good enough for Mr. Why to hear his students memorizing laws. He wanted students to understand principles and even reasons nature had behind its laws.
Moreover, he demanded it all without need for us to study at home. It was because Mr. Why ensured himself that each and every of his students left class fully comprehending what he taught. In his opinion, studying at home was a waste of our private lives. kids educational websites
We learned what we were supposed to learn, and we came home with valid knowledge we can use later in life. We always looked forward to his enjoyable classes. It was joyful to see him proud that in his extensive career not even one of his many students ever failed Science. It certainly seems that there has been just one and lonely Mr. Why.
It will prove immensely wise to realize that it is not enough to hire
teachers based on knowledge they have in one particular subject.
It is paramount that all teachers must inescapably be highly efficient
when it comes to execute something vital and crucial: how to teach.
That is because all teachers could so magnificently inspire, sculpt, and
cultivate the future if they master how to teach before they are hired.
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