You being up rigor and I’m sure that makes most teachers glaze over as they do with other faculty meeting buzz words. However, with the increase of student cheating and the use of electronics, how do you fight that? How do you fight boredom from a core class to an elective? And what about those practices of simply taking away electronics to force the attention?
All great questions Isaac—I hope the divisiveness of “rigor” keeps teachers reading! There’s a viral clip circulating of Kevin O’Leary blaming bad teaching for low academic performance; the host yells “HUNGER” in his face. It’s the truth. Pay teachers more. Give students equal access to food and mental health counseling. Give subsidies to poor families. Engage students with what they care about right now, not claiming that education is an “investment in their future.” What 13 year old cares about their future when their present feels in unbearable? That’s how we fix it. Teachers. Curriculum writers. State legislature. For-profit companies. State budget writers. Superintendents. It’s an ecosystem. Swap out the K-12 specific labels for the higher Ed labels and it still applies (professors, instructional designers, etc.).
You being up rigor and I’m sure that makes most teachers glaze over as they do with other faculty meeting buzz words. However, with the increase of student cheating and the use of electronics, how do you fight that? How do you fight boredom from a core class to an elective? And what about those practices of simply taking away electronics to force the attention?
All great questions Isaac—I hope the divisiveness of “rigor” keeps teachers reading! There’s a viral clip circulating of Kevin O’Leary blaming bad teaching for low academic performance; the host yells “HUNGER” in his face. It’s the truth. Pay teachers more. Give students equal access to food and mental health counseling. Give subsidies to poor families. Engage students with what they care about right now, not claiming that education is an “investment in their future.” What 13 year old cares about their future when their present feels in unbearable? That’s how we fix it. Teachers. Curriculum writers. State legislature. For-profit companies. State budget writers. Superintendents. It’s an ecosystem. Swap out the K-12 specific labels for the higher Ed labels and it still applies (professors, instructional designers, etc.).