What really get me are all these anally retentive types who complain about others not cleaning the board. They must have suffered some childhood classroom sexual trauma to explain how hysterical they get about it.
Apart from the fact that you may forget to clean it, often you have to leave a class before everybody has finished checking their answers from it. You can hardly count on the last one to clean it.
a colleague of mine suggested at a staff meeting once that things would be a lot easier if the convention was that nobody cleaned the board. His argument was that the present system meant that the conscientious cleaned the board for themselves and the person before them, whereas his suggestion would mean they would only have to clean it once. Like most sensible suggestions it was ignored.
What is your biggest gripe about teaching?
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joshua2004
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I hate "traditional" teaching. I think it is a shame how most of the world is teaching in an ineffective way. "Traditional" teaching has only been around for a couple hundred years but some how most of the world has no idea how to learn any different way. I want teachers and prospective teachers to learn how to do things differently. But for that to happen, the system has to change. Teachers nowadays can´t do much different because the system is so cripling to thier abilities and interests in developing better ways of teaching. Thats my gripe.
