RE: Formal education: A tyranny of numbers: why I’m quitting teaching part 2/11
I got a migraine just thinking of having to do all those things! I do hate the "bureaucratisation" of schools and all the hoops you have to jump through to prove kids are learning something and all the assessments to progress. And the government has their required assessments on top of the schools tests which is a mess of things that are a pain to as a teacher to mess with. Focusing on preparing kids to take these tests of academic progress forces teachers to worry more about preparing them to pass the test rather than on quality education.
I really hate the "Course evaluation surveys." I once taught 100 student classes and those killed like 20 minutes of a class. I had to stand in the hall while another teacher did them. Sometimes I'd have to come in on off hours to give someone elses class evaluations. Only complaint was students hate I didn't give them my powerpoints forcing them to actually take notes on their own. It was a total waste of paper and time.
As to the former it's a bitter irony that 'teaching to pass exams' is easier than actually teaching - because in massive classes with compulsory teaching you can't really teach properly anyway. Myabe with smal groups of 4-5 ? Or even less!
As to latter, they are something of a joke among the regular staff - but there was a section in our latest staff meeting about how we can most effectively feed back the results of those surveys to the students. I shit you not (this is precisely one of those ideas that can only come from a colonised mind).
As to migraines - sorry about that, you should try experiencing the anxiety-soup I have to battle through every Monday morning. Still, the end is in site.
PS - If yr critiquing a current job online I'd be careful - I'm only doing this noe as I know I'm leaving shortly and I'm fairly sure steemits not that visible yet!