Teachers nervous to teach.
Posted: Aug 20th, 2017, 5:00 pm
When I read that headline, I thought, omigod, it's Back to School Mania and someones concocted a story about how the information age has made it impossible for teachers to present information to students. Why? Because every student has the world in their hands anyways with google, wiki and thousands of alternative websites presenting information in a vastly different way. I had a text book like that in college classes, how one issue could be written so differently.
Here we have history as going by the wayside because teachers are "nervous" to say the wrong thing and risk getting forever labelled a racist, xenophobe, white supremists for teaching about the Canadian residential school history.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/20 ... s-to-teach
Coaches? Really?
How do they teach about the Labour history? European history? American History? Social Studies? Other Canadian ethnic history - chinese, japanese, East Indian, Finns, labour camps during the war, doukabours, and so many others. Coaches from each group?
In grade 7 we were given a social studies subject, mine was drugs. Did my parents freak and call the school? No, I did research and presented a paper.
I actually feel badly for teachers in todays hyper-information age.
Here we have history as going by the wayside because teachers are "nervous" to say the wrong thing and risk getting forever labelled a racist, xenophobe, white supremists for teaching about the Canadian residential school history.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/20 ... s-to-teach
Coaches? Really?
How do they teach about the Labour history? European history? American History? Social Studies? Other Canadian ethnic history - chinese, japanese, East Indian, Finns, labour camps during the war, doukabours, and so many others. Coaches from each group?
In grade 7 we were given a social studies subject, mine was drugs. Did my parents freak and call the school? No, I did research and presented a paper.
I actually feel badly for teachers in todays hyper-information age.