One step further in the journey to 0 classroom, 0 teachers and 135 kids and 4 teachers working as treat servants instead
A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. A veteran math teacher hovered near a cluster of desks, coaching some 50 freshmen on a geometry assignment. A science teacher checked students’ homework, while an English teacher spoke into a microphone at the front of the classroom, giving instruction, to keep students on track.
One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School, in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There, an innovative teaching model has taken hold, and is spreading to other schools in the district and beyond.
Five years ago, faced with high teacher turnover and declining student enrollment, Westwood’s leaders decided to try something different. Working with professors at Arizona State University’s teachers college, they piloted a classroom model known as team teaching. It allows teachers to dissolve the walls that separate their classes across physical or grade divides.
Friere is actually pretty commonly talked about in teachers colleges from what I've seen. It wasn't uncommon to have readings of Friere as a comparison to someone like Dewey, and then listen to profs talk about how neoliberalism is destroying education.
Hmm, we have too much teacher burnout and turnover. How can we make it worse
This just sounds like a panopticon hell of not actually getting the help and attention you need while still feeling like you have enough attention on you to never be able to relax and zone out.
Mesa, AZ
Ah, the city where a cop murdered Daniel Shaver and let the pig who did it retire with a full pension in his 20s
Mesa is just retvrning to the based and tradpilled one-room schoolhouse. And also making it worse.
Howmstv the fuck is the english teacher grading 100+ papers with actual feedback? Answer: they aren't and the kids aint learning.
all middle-high school english teachers have to grade 100+ papers every time they assign writing, they have 5+ sections of 30 kids.
My parents made too much money for me to get aid for college. Then they refused to co-sign on any loans or help me pay my tuition. Then they got pissed when I got put on financial probation, eventually dropped out, and proceeded to come home to live with them for an extra couple years. They fucked around and then they found out.
Anyway, it’s made me feel right at home to see capitalists getting frustrated about not being able to find workers after supporting the politicians who consistently defunded education.
The capitalists are delighted by the prospect of increased illiteracy.
Seems a bit bad but I like the idea of education experiments because I fucking hated regular school. Probably would've loved this, hid from the admin better, not been expelled so much. Sounds noisy though, harder to sleep
ime larger classrooms are better no matter how many kids. I would love this if it weren't a way of papering over bad staffing ratios.
