In many ways, I have been blessed by a profession and my insatiable wishes to learn. It altogether took me to live in several countries. Most of the time for years, and in few countries, for several months. It has been such a wonderful experience to get to know those different cultures; and being a natural observer, they taught me so much.
Knowledge has been to me such an important issue; and so, I have always been very 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 educational systems that I personally encountered in those countries I lived in for long enough, and that includes the U.S.A. and Canada. The educational systems used ~from elementary school to high school and certainly so in college~ fail to various degrees at the foundation of the "teaching-learning" process. It appears to be a wide spread issue. It not only applies to very substantial number of North American learning institutions, but also to their counterparts in many cultures of this world. 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 vital and crucial: "how to teach"In all my years of high school, I had a Science teacher known by his students with the nickname of Mr. Why. His real name was Professor Consentino. A man who conceived and then mastered applying a principle I have never seen implemented so proficiently anywhere during my observations. His principle was that when a teacher is confronted with normally intelligent students
and those students fail acquiring knowledge, it is a clear and very revealing indication
that it is the teacher the one failing at teaching and passing knowledge on instead of
normally intelligent students unable to learn. Professor Consentino's classes were far from becoming one more boring monolog. He systematically ~and with no failure~ turned all his classes in interesting disclosures of how nature decided and determined to use its own laws. This man filled great deal of his time in class showing daily life examples or events where all his students could see those laws being applied by nature. He was very clever to make us live nature's laws. He successfully and repeatedly achieved for us to get inspired, and to understand his teachings as clearly as crystal itself. this teacher's nickname was the result
of his most famous question: Why ?Should any of his students enunciate a law of physics, he could be anticipated to ask "Why". It was not enough for him to see students remembering by heart a given law. This teacher wanted to make sure that every single student understood the principle nature had behind that law, and he wanted it without the need to go home to study. It was because Mr. Why ensured himself that each and every of his students left class fully comprehending exactly what he taught that day. In his opinion, studying at home what he taught in class was not only unnecessary but a waste of our private lives. kids educational websites We all truly learned what we were supposed to learn at every one of his classes. We all came back home with something new that we learned in his class. We all had very good grades, and he was proud that in his extensive career not even one of his many students ever failed Science. We had fun and looked forward to his enjoyable classes. At times, he was tough and a tad unfriendly; but he was loved and highly respected. In my extensive observation, I just could not find where more of these teachers are or can be found. It certainly seems that there has been just one and lonely Mr. Why. • • •It will prove immensely wise to fully realize why it is not enough to hire folks based on college degrees. It is not enough to hire teachers because they are knowledgeable in one particular subject. No, it is not enough. It is paramount that all teachers must inescapably be highly efficient
when it comes to execute something vital and crucial: how to teach.
The thriving future of one entire country depends on such realization.
That is because all teachers could so magnificently inspire, sculpt, and
beneficially cultivate the future of any nation if they realistically master
how to teach.
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