I would love to discuss with you readers about Mai and Kizuna's presentation specifically their skit about a young teacher who is not teaching the correct material for the standardized tests that the students will be taking at the end of the semester. I do believe this is a disaster that the teacher is not teaching material that the students will be tested on. Since this teacher was new to the school and she had mainly focused on only a certain type of learning, i do not remember exactly, i think speaking. If she is not successful in teaching the the correct information, which if i can remember right was grammar and reading she could very well lose her job. The thought that she can just change her teaching techniques to teach this information is not as easy as it might seem. The students could lose motivation to learn which it seemed by the skit were interested in the class. Also she might not be as successful in teaching different techniques. It could be that is why she focused on what she did. Also the impression of her fellow peers of her professionalism because she was informed by a fellow peer about the tests. It could very well have an effect on her relationship with them.
Also disasters can be fixed and just because it can be fixed does not mean it is not a disaster. It would be a teachable moment for herself.
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Hi,
I guess it come s back to what is education about?
Is it about passing a test or learning something in a better/more interesting way than you could do just studying alone.
Unfortunately teaching to or for the test is what students need, because a high rating on an artifical situation ( a test) is the gateway to a job or a hoop one has to jump through for higher education.
Often what one must do to get in a situation one desires are not the same skills that one needs to be in the situation.
A very skilled doctor I know is horrible at job interviews but wonderful with patients and colleagues. So when he interviewes he hires a headhunter/coach to assit him in the interview situation.
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