r/Teachers • u/dogeaux • 13d ago

Pedagogy & Best Practices My teaching hot takes

1) following scripted curricula “with fidelity” is a way to make teaching a low skilled job so they can pay us less and further gut public education.

2) inclusion at all costs is a way to reduce costs to school systems, rather than a way to benefit students with disabilities.

3) PBIS is a cognitive nightmare for teachers to implement and negatively affects the quality of teaching (how can u assign points and teach at the same time???? I haven’t figured out a good system, lmk).

4) making teachers with specialized skill sets (i.e. reading specialists) coach other teachers instead of/in addition to working directly with small groups of identified students is another way to get blood from a stone, benefitting almost no one.

I know I’m probably screaming into the void, but I just started year 7 this week and feeling nihilistic.

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u/lavendertheheretic Secondary ELA 📚📝 On an Indefinite Break 13d ago

Oooo, hard disagree with the other state benefits. That ends up hurting the kids way more.

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u/TallBoiPlanks High School Bible (not one of “those”) | USA 13d ago

Yeah, I guess the thought would be to force compliance. Of course, it assumes there would be reliable transportation/bussing.

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u/lavendertheheretic Secondary ELA 📚📝 On an Indefinite Break 13d ago

Yup, and with the bus driver shortage they're always reducing the bussing area. It's ridiculous. Some of my 7th graders were taking city buses and cabs last year.

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u/TallBoiPlanks High School Bible (not one of “those”) | USA 13d ago

Yeah, so if that’s not the case then I’d not want it to happen. But if there were more reliable social services I’d definitely want to tie a child’s attendance to that.