Thursday 18 April 2013

RI Teacher Says"I Quit!"

 There is a video on Youtube about a second grade teacher who is fed up with his elementary school's 'One-Size-Fits-All' curriculum.
 Here is a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBSgchJe2Z0&feature=player_embedded

    Stephen Round, the dissatisfied teacher who has decided to stop teaching at his elementary school, is reading his resignation letter to the Human Resources Department and everyone who watching the video as well. There are two main things I felt deeply when listening to Stephen Round's speech.
    First of all, there are two quite clear and exact phrases I loved in the speech. They are "useful idiot" and "test-taker". Stephen described a very bad situation of the students' academic life (in my opinion) to us. The school is so ridiculous to think that proper relaxing and playing is a waste of time for students. Not only students would feel terrible for this decision, but also the teachers. Most teachers I've met in my life are creative and they enjoy teaching. Usually, their creativity for lesson provides new ideas for teaching, repressed by old rules and regulations. They also enjoy have the communication with their students in class. On one hand this proves their ability of teaching. On the other hand, even teachers can get improvement throughout the new style of education. But if a school focuses on getting higher grades, even the teachers cannot teach in their own style because they have to make the class "efficient" not "vivid". Therefore, both teachers and students do not get any benefit from the school's decision.
   Second,   there's no right way of teaching and not all the children are suitable for the same learning method. Specific child has his or her own personalities and interests. Like we usually finds we have our own strong subjects and weak ones, certain child is good at certain things. If we really treat every child with the same way, there may be some problems occurring.  

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