Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results

Re:Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results by yawboakye on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:06AM (#7023880)

One thing that's true of the Mr K's out there is that they define their success entirely in terms of the success of _all_ their students. While a help-you-get-creative teacher will allow you fail because you "want" to (who really does?), a teacher who delivers tough love would make sure you succeed. In this permissive era where parents allow their kids to while away time in front of televisions and computer doing basically nothing, it's only great if teachers could act _in loco parentis_ and instruct not only in science and math but also in discipline and self-control

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Re:Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results by watwut on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:22AM (#7023984)

I think that it depends on what exactly are you tough about. You can have teacher that is strict and tough and happen to insist on less important things.

Made up example would be math teacher assigning two hours a day of exercises and worksheets on simple equations, while other teachers already moved on and successfully teach "difficult" equations.

Made up over the top example would be teacher that checks your notebook every other day whether it is nice, organized and colored. He would assign three hours of work of cutting and pasting and coloring and what not every day and make you rework historical diorama five times.

However, that teacher could still miss that you have no idea what happened during historical period he is teaching and do not remember single name or date.

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Re:Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:20AM (#7023968)

In this permissive era where parents allow their kids to while away time in front of televisions and computer doing basically nothing

And also where they prohibit them from outside interactions and tightly monitor their social lives (or lack thereof).

Hardly seems permissive to me.

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Re:Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results by yawboakye on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:51AM (#7024194)

Especially true for Africans and African Americans. But that represents a smaller percentage. When majority of Snapchat users are early teenagers then parents are really monitoring outside interactions and social lives.

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