Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Funny Teacher Rant




"Funny Teacher Rant". The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Educators.Wavelength. Youtube. 3.21.07. 3. 31.09.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ged6hKZOTqw>.

In this clip, "teachers" discuss the pressures they encounter while teaching. In the middle of the discussion one of the teachers begin to rant about her 23 year elementary school teaching career. She discusses the craziness of the changing techniques the school administration enforces. This clip illustrates that teachers have little control over the learning methods implemented in the classroom. The themes addressed in this segment include changes in the educational system and the willingness to adapt to those changes. This clip suggest that the educational system is always in flux, therefore teachers are sometimes faced with a lot of pressure when preparing their lessons or instructing their students. Some of the changes this teacher rants about include the transitions from open classrooms to “back to basics,” “whole word learning” to “hooked on phonics,” and assertive discipline to no discipline.From my perspective, I believe that these actors put on the persona of teachers to show the audience that teaching in a constantly changing educational sytem can become very difficult.


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