Recently, this BuzzFeed article sharing firsthand stories from teachers got a fair bit of attention. Teachers from kindergarten to college detailed their experiences and frustrations teaching kids who just “cannot do basic things anymore,” from tying their shoes to zipping up their coats to printing their own names — and that’s in college. In response to the article, even more teachers wrote in, and I thought I would share. So, here are the unfiltered thoughts of teachers sharing what they have to teach kids nowadays:
1.”Kids won’t read. They’ll try for five minutes before giving up.”
2.”I’m a university professor; I’ve been formally teaching undergraduates for five or six years. In my time teaching, I’ve seen the disappearance of innate interest in learning material for the sake of learning. It doesn’t matter that my students are Psychology majors; they don’t care about Psychology. They only care about checking off boxes on assignment rubrics. I can, no joke, say the same thing every single class out loud, while they’re looking at me and nodding along. And I’m not talking technical stuff here. I’ll say, ‘For the final project, you can use the survey questions designed by anyone in the class, including the ones you designed.’ I got five emails this weekend asking if they had to use their own questions. They do not care.”
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