tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post7939676413691468176..comments2024-01-16T20:32:16.809-06:00Comments on Teaching Anthropology: Ahh the good old days........Pamthropologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061905270637904812noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-90660631263316555892010-05-14T02:03:57.649-05:002010-05-14T02:03:57.649-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.marryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811643324748313696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-68010971143538403332009-07-20T10:57:35.302-05:002009-07-20T10:57:35.302-05:00Thanks, ShephDJ. You know, another faculty member...Thanks, ShephDJ. You know, another faculty member and I figured out that our College spent over $25,000 sending a group of us to that second conference. We were just sick at the though of how many textbooks that could have bought.<br /><br />Those of us Texas folks know well the issues of NCLB. That is another rant for another day and you are so right.Pamthropologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04061905270637904812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-67492178197870988652009-07-20T01:08:25.159-05:002009-07-20T01:08:25.159-05:00Thank you, from me, as well, for this much needed ...Thank you, from me, as well, for this much needed rebuttal. <br /><br />Regarding students needing remedial course work: Can we all spell “No Child Left Behind”? It will take us decades to recover from the lunacy of that program … once we finally buck up and fully correct the problem. NCLB throws innumerable obstacles in the way of both teachers and students so that real teaching of basics as well as of critical thinking skills never happens because the survival of everyone depends only on scoring high on the tests. Unfortunately, having knowledge of fundamentals and critical thinking skills will not help one pass the tests well enough.<br /><br />About those conferences for enlightening us teachers about student engagement: My sympathies to you. I’ve been to those conferences, too. It really hurts just to be there. Just think what could have been accomplished if all this money were put toward supporting the education system we had in place, in the first place. But you said that, too.<br /><br />About retention: You wrote, “And in the meantime, you still have a core of good students who do want to be there. Some of them are very, very good. Some of them are positively heroic.” This is so breathtakingly true.<br /><br />ShephDJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-10997124215023474942009-07-19T14:27:21.273-05:002009-07-19T14:27:21.273-05:00It is quite clear many, many of us feel, exacty as...It is quite clear many, many of us feel, exacty as we do. Thank you for the validation.Pamthropologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04061905270637904812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-74728774645395814742009-07-19T00:14:03.748-05:002009-07-19T00:14:03.748-05:00Thank you for putting into words what I've bee...Thank you for putting into words what I've been thinking! I'm trying to teach my middle-school son that it's his responsibility to engage with learning, not his teachers' responsibility to make it "interesting." Yet, when I go to work, I'm told that it's my job to engage my students. While I agree that it's important to help students make connections from the classroom to their own lives, and I work at making my assignments relevant, it is not my responsibility to engage them! They come from too many places, with too much variation in terms of skills and experiences for me to personally engage a classroom of 35 people, multiplied across the 5 classes that I teach per semester!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723606524411915708noreply@blogger.com