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lol sure man
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lawl dude its not authoritarian if they don't intend it to be, teachers are only trying to get them to focus!!!! i hate how the language is so hidden like "emotional and social tranquility" bruh youre just saying they shut up and listened bc you coerced them to
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also holy shit tyranny of the clock is like so so so real in school holy fuck
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Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform, Mary Kennedy, pg 217, Sources of Improvement in Teaching sources. One of the most dramatic stories of change motivated by a professional development program was told by Ms. Toklisch, who had been teaching for four years when she enrolled in a summer workshop on teaching a particular mathematics curriculum. After the workshop a mentor from the program came into her classroom to observe her teaching and to help her change her practice. One day the students were learning to measure. They were measuring their own heights, but instead of holding the rulers against a wall, they moved them right up against their bodies, jagging them in and out of curves and lumps in their clothing. Toklisch saw that their measurements would be wrong and tried to correct the students, showing them how to hold the rulers, when her mentor stopped her. The mentor took her out into the hall and firmly insisted that she let the students figure this out for themselves. Then the mentor took over the class and finished the lesson herself. Toklisch watched as the students reported out their findings. Somebody said, "Well I'm the same height as you, but your measurement says you are 20 inches taller than me. That can't be right." And so Mary [the mentor] said, "Well, why don't you show the way you measured?" And they showed the way. And the kids went running over and said, "But look what's happening when you're going up and over your hips and up over you shoulders. you're adding a whole bunch of extra." And "Oohhhhhhh," they said. And that was so much more powerful than what 1 did. So much more. Because she just let them make mistakes, and then they saw the mistakes themselves. And then they started to question each other. It was so much more power-ful. I think that was the day I think I went home and cried. I went, "Oh my gosh. This is bigger than I thought it was. This is a major change.