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JenniferEver
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by MrsPowers
Many kids today do not remember important events from one day to the next. Unless they constantly are reinforced about certain concept they will not remember them. Students read a book for over a month and don't remember what it was about. I chalk a lot of this up to the lack of attention spans and the fact that many kids do not read enough outside of school. Unless a teacher is doing tricks in front of the classroom, many times the students forget what they have learned so quickly. But if it was a song on their Ipod, they would remember it.
I wouldn't be so quick to fault the teachers.
I see this in my religion class. Every week I feel like I am starting from day one until I do magic tricks to jog their little memories.
"Remember the story we heard last week. Who were the people in the Garden of Eden?"
"um God!"
"jesus?"
"shepherds?"
"Remember the story about the man and the woman, and the snake (with slithering hand motion)....? Who was the snake in disguise?"
"um God!"
"jesus?"
"shepherds?"
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by MrsPowers
Many kids today do not remember important events from one day to the next. Unless they constantly are reinforced about certain concept they will not remember them. Students read a book for over a month and don't remember what it was about. I chalk a lot of this up to the lack of attention spans and the fact that many kids do not read enough outside of school. Unless a teacher is doing tricks in front of the classroom, many times the students forget what they have learned so quickly. But if it was a song on their Ipod, they would remember it.
I wouldn't be so quick to fault the teachers.
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ITA!
Students in my 11th grade chem class still do not know how to cross multiply. This gets reinforced in both math and science, but when they see a equals sign and need to solve for an unknown they all look like this 
A lot has to do with how they learn. Today's students are used to a fast pace. Think: PSPs, I-pods, computers, cell phones, etc. Teachers have to try to get the kids interested in the material and unfortunately with so many external distractions on top of social distractions associated with high school, it is difficult.
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wannabemom
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
GEOGRAPHY!!!!!
For the love of all things sacred, please make sure every HS graduate can identify china and france on a map..... and don't point to jamaica when you're asked where the panama canal was built
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by MissJones
Ummm..for one thing, behavior! Oh wait, parents could work on that one, too! 
yes, i agree
aside from that - sex education, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, communications, human behavior, relationships, social situations - ALL that stuff that you really use to make these kids into GREAT people.
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wannabemom
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by DaniRella
Posted by MissJones
Ummm..for one thing, behavior! Oh wait, parents could work on that one, too!
yes, i agree
aside from that - sex education, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, communications, human behavior, relationships, social situations - ALL that stuff that you really use to make these kids into GREAT people.
actually, that stuff would not need to be reiterated as much if basic discipline and a work ethic was instilled in kids. Instead, it's the exact opposite. Parents are growing large enough balls to complain to teachers that the classwork is too demanding
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by wannabemom
Posted by DaniRella
Posted by MissJones
Ummm..for one thing, behavior! Oh wait, parents could work on that one, too!
yes, i agree
aside from that - sex education, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, communications, human behavior, relationships, social situations - ALL that stuff that you really use to make these kids into GREAT people.
actually, that stuff would not need to be reiterated as much if basic discipline and a work ethic was instilled in kids. Instead, it's the exact opposite. Parents are growing large enough balls to complain to teachers that the classwork is too demanding
oh lord  i tell ya - god bless teachers! these parents - my god!
well, i think i mean more like general knowledge - meaning, i know GROWN WOMEN who do not know that if you go down on a guy and you have an open cold sore in your mouth - they can get HERPES down there! (sorry, gross topic) but it needs to be said - people don't THINK and then something that there's no cure for gets spread around like crazy... i mean things like that. also, relationships and communication - there are things i learned in college classes that i really could have used when in HS.
in HS - i didn't know how to deal with death, how to deal with all the emotions i was facing being in my first serious relationship, etc. --so, i mean things like that more but i totally see what you are saying and where you are coming from. i just think kids need this to prepare them for the real world, the work place, etc. also b/c of the parents - maybe the parents aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing BUT the kids could still grow up to be GREAT people one day - just the fault of the parents not being so great -so, maybe a teacher could impact them and help them - ya know?
also - the dangers of alcoholism and drug abuse from an early age just b/c people are getting into things like that so much sooner so it, apparently, needs to be brought up sooner.
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by Ophelia
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We had all of those things in ( public) HS in the early 90s--not all mandatory though.
I took basic accoutnant ( elective) & thought it was very valuable--my brother conitued on with more of the business classes, and I believe some of them went into investing.
There was frequently a "stock market challenge."
US Government & Economics was the 12 grade required Social Studies class. The AP exam was only on Government, so my class spent more time on that. I'm a little sketchy on the economics still. Govenrment was thorough though-and we even ran a voter registration drive for juniors & seniors turning 18.
I don't teach or have children, so I don't know what is taught & not taught presently.
me too.
they also taught basic household accounting in Home Ec classes.
ditto for me
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wannabemom
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Let me clarify what I meant...
I'm taking it from a nerd's perspective. I developed the work / study ethic in my early teens...
So, I actually studied! In my jr and high school, they DID discuss all those issues in health class... SEVERAL times. we learned about all the horrible diseases, and how they can caught and also prevented. Also the basic classes of drugs and how they are abused... and the permanent damage it causes to the body. To this day, I can rattle off all the drugs popular in the 80's, their street names, whether or not their a hallucinagen/stimulent/depressant...
BUT, most of my classmates didn't STUDY, sooooo, it went in one ear and out the other... so it's like it never happened!
(The only thing they didn't discuss was dealing with death.... I don't think anyone can teach that... it's a coping mechanism a person must develop independently)
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| Posted 2/13/08 8:48 PM |
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
GEOGRAPHY!!!!!!
And history....
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
I agree that basic financial concepts should be taught, as well as government and basic grammar. I would love to see a citizenship class (volunteerism, tolerance, etc)
As a parent, I feel it's my job to teach my child behavior, not the teachers. The teacher is there to teach the curriculum for that grade. She can reinforce what we teach them. That's not to say she can't dole out punishments - missing recess, etc. If my son isn't listening to her & being disruptive in class, we need to act on it as soon as possible (and it's happened).
I think a "Business Reality" course should be mandatory in both high school & college.
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Diane
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Posted by glinda-goodwitch
For highschools:
Money management/balancing checkbooks
interviewing for jobs/resumes
they do have that.....unfiortuanately in our school they take this class as a Freshman...it should be taught in their senior year.
Well, as far as Behavior..I wish I could teach that, but frankly I dont belive it is the job of the teacher. This needs to be taught at home, which I know in many cases, it NOT reinforced at home, and many kids get away with things in the home with their parents, so they think they can come to school and walk all over the teachers.
I think things need to go back to having the option of taking a Regents class or a Non-Regents class. I see that we are teaching for test which should be teaching the material, not how to teach test taking skills. I dont think that is tha fault of the teachers, because they get the pressure to make sure they cover the material that is on the test, rather the STATE making all these requirements.
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Erica
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
While Economics is required in NYS, I think sometimes microeconomics needs to be focused upon. I only taught the class twice, while I was a teacher, but I did a unit long game where students had to prepare real life budgets and had emergency expenses, etc. - which is an idea from my own Eco teacher in HS. (He was also my AP History teacher - so there is a place where you can fit this, even in honors classes)
Posted by Goldi0218
When I was in high school, uor senior year found us writing a comprehensive college level paper. It had multiple drafts, note cards and annotations. It was hardcore. For every three errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation, a student dropped a letter grade for the assignment.
THIS is when I get angry at people who say that because I went to college and graduate school, that I know how to write. Sorry, this is high school and this is where I got my standards - in a public high school. No spell or grammar check. No computers. We were on our own.
Did we go to the same HS? We did the same in my HS and I feel like we were the only ones? When I was teaching my friends in college how to do citations, it blew my mind.
This is a big factor in what propelled me into the library from a HS teacher. Is it that there is so much "teaching" to the test, that these fundamental basics are lost when time runs out?
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Re: Spinoff: What do you think should be taught/reinforced better in schools?
Geography, writing, spelling, phonics (get rid of whole language), memorization of basic things like multiplication tables, time management skills, financial skills (investing, credit cards, budgeting), etiquette (It's a chore for me to get a please and thank you out of my students). Vent over.
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