Monsters are so misunderstood. The real scary ones are bad teachers who can endure multiple generations of new standards – all based on rigorous analysis of best practices – and still mess up so badly that they make it look as if it was the standards’ fault. Even many good teachers get very little out of it because the implementation is usually overseen by incompetent administrators. The only ones who recognize the good in them are the superior educators who have already been doing things right all along. In other countries where fierce individualism is not the social norm, programs based on CC and its predecessors have performed phenomenally, because there is a true sense of camaraderie throughout entire faculties as well as better qualified and respected hierarchies. So well, in fact, that teachers have immigrated to the U.S. to see “the masters” at work, only to see what classrooms are actually like here and wonder what the @#%& is going on. John & Scott, I love your work, and I know this is “just a comic,” but that tiny extra bite in the punchline will simply inflate the confirmation bias of any educational fearmonger who sees it.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 9 years ago
No you didn’t!
vldazzle over 9 years ago
I agree!That monster KNOWS the score!
Seeker149 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Monsters are so misunderstood. The real scary ones are bad teachers who can endure multiple generations of new standards – all based on rigorous analysis of best practices – and still mess up so badly that they make it look as if it was the standards’ fault. Even many good teachers get very little out of it because the implementation is usually overseen by incompetent administrators. The only ones who recognize the good in them are the superior educators who have already been doing things right all along. In other countries where fierce individualism is not the social norm, programs based on CC and its predecessors have performed phenomenally, because there is a true sense of camaraderie throughout entire faculties as well as better qualified and respected hierarchies. So well, in fact, that teachers have immigrated to the U.S. to see “the masters” at work, only to see what classrooms are actually like here and wonder what the @#%& is going on. John & Scott, I love your work, and I know this is “just a comic,” but that tiny extra bite in the punchline will simply inflate the confirmation bias of any educational fearmonger who sees it.
pinkdryad Premium Member over 9 years ago
That explains so much!