This is so true! Time and time again students have shown how much better they respond to praise of their success than ridicule of their failures. Helping students grow means acknowledging their faults and helping students overcome them, that does NOT mean blanket "X" marks wherever they messed up!

I started my internship under a seventh grade math teacher a couple weeks ago, I have made discoveries!

-students respect you when you respect them(this only applies to like half the students)

-they do not respect my authority because I am not a full teacher(help how do I get them to listen😭)

This is definitely something to talk about. Many kids that have access to AI and even just Google struggle to put in the right things to get a good answer. How you ask a question is super important and has drastic effects on the result you get. We need to teach prompting if we continue to use it

Education is and always will be about growth not getting a good grade. This is why the push towards ungrading is growing. It is so important to remember what school is really for! If your classroom is a place of learning the grades will fall into place if you give them the opportunity to show growth

This is hugely true! Often I see the biggest failure in teachers to explain to students with sources about why they are doing something. Especially in highschool/college the students you are teaching are people with the ability to understand the why. So tell them! It goes a long way I promise.

Yes the Prussian education model was literally our roadmap for building our system in the United States. This is a fact we cannot lose sight of, when anyone argues against education reform they are almost always arguing against critical thinking and independence of future generations!

This is the result of lifelong learning centers being closed, people do care and it is important to remind everyone of that. Everyone has the ability to learn new things and grow at any age and lifelong learning centers are a major way people grow out of poverty(strain theory is a cool rabbit 🕳️)

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Yes, the United States system of education was literally built on the idea of creating obedient factory workers all the way back to Horace Mann(cool rabbit hole) it is important to realize that any attempt to keep critical thinking out of the classroom only benefits those who wish to manipulate us!

If anyone is looking for an interesting rabbit hole to go down the successes and failures of the vark(visual, auditory, reading, kinesthetic) model of learning by Neil Fleming in the late 1980s.

Censorship is too large an issue in the US education system, sadly many things cannot be talked about to their fullest extent because certain things simply can't be taught well when you can't talk about things such as critical race theory, LGBT+ topics, or varying perspectives.