> Bad teachers don't teach. They don't convey knowledge
Teaching is not a simple matter of shoveling some quantity of "knowledge" into children. Education requires purpose, focus, and motivation. Good teachers inspire children to learn on their own. Bad teachers actively harm students' achievement.
As for my comment on tests, tests that encourage students to write terrible essays loaded with factoids are bad because they encurage students to write terrible essays. This has nothing to do with the teacher - except that if used as a metric for evaluating teachers, it will cause us to devalue teachers who teach students to write better essays.
And I stand by my assertion that no one who calls children dumb should be involved in their education. Motivation is a primary piece of education, and calling students dumb is profoundly demotivating.
I don't know why you're telling me the obvious. Nor do I see what it has to do with the distinction between good and bad teachers. You're making a lot of proclamations without any supporting evidence.
if used as a metric for evaluating teachers, it will cause us to devalue teachers who teach students to write better essays.
Why? What is the basis for that claim? Teaching a testing strategy for a unified test has very little to do with week-to-week teaching and testing. That's sort of the point, it's a standardized test meant to establish baseline comprehension. Why does an essay that hits at least a couple of key points somehow qualify as 'bad'?
And I stand by my assertion that no one who calls children dumb should be involved in their education.
What are you talking about? Who was talking about people involved in education calling children dumb? Who was even talking about calling children dumb? I describe children as dumb, because that's the reality, I don't call them dumb.
Teaching is not a simple matter of shoveling some quantity of "knowledge" into children. Education requires purpose, focus, and motivation. Good teachers inspire children to learn on their own. Bad teachers actively harm students' achievement.
As for my comment on tests, tests that encourage students to write terrible essays loaded with factoids are bad because they encurage students to write terrible essays. This has nothing to do with the teacher - except that if used as a metric for evaluating teachers, it will cause us to devalue teachers who teach students to write better essays.
And I stand by my assertion that no one who calls children dumb should be involved in their education. Motivation is a primary piece of education, and calling students dumb is profoundly demotivating.