In this slapped together episode I talk aut controversy in music, weed, bad teachers, yes no's and maybe's, and "Avatar." Click here to download this and older Rosscast episodes. Enjoy!
I think you can really test a teacher's mettle by...giving them all the resources you need. If, for example, you reduce the teacher:pupil ratio, a teacher has more time and energy to cater to all learning styles and can take the time to engage each student properly, and can spot and solve problems early. I've never taught children, but I've taught undergraduates as a TA and as a professor and honestly, the smaller the class, the better the average mark. The bright and focussed kids will always do well, so it doesn't affect them much, but the middling students can be pushed up a grade and the struggling students can be helped to become very competent if there's enough time and energy put into them. Just my two cents as you Yanks say...my ideal class size is 5-9 students for tutorials. I always got great results with that size of a class. And if a teacher still has a dismal pass rate with a class that size, the students aren't always going to be the problem.
I hated the music you played in this podcast. Who was it, so I can avoid them? Ew.
About the false outrage thing, I'm don't think it's false, but it is very manufactured. It's been created by people with not enough to do. While I'm not trying to offend your friend, I think that how someone reacts to something offensive says a lot about them. Getting upset when someone draws your attention to something offensive that you weren't independently aware of, because it doesn't affect you, is to my mind ridiculous. There is so much potentially offensive stuff out there, are we going to get offended every time some jackass opens their mouth? And the word blasphemy was mentioned -you can only blaspheme if you are a follower of that faith, so unless Jay Z is a Christian, nothing he says can be blasphemous. This Facebook campaign or whatever is going on is to my mind an example of completely manufactured outrage. Nobody was affected by what Jay Z said, except to realise that he's happy to abuse his right to free speech by disrespecting a faith, and is therefore probably an asshole. Reacting to it by joining an angry Facebook group rather than going out and counteracting his words by being a true Christian is, I think, dumb. Hmmm. Bet I've just offended your friend. :(
Nicholas Coke? In our history, there's a guy called John (?) Cokayne. Ha. He betrayed our rebel leaders to the Brits. Baby with no brain...euuuggh. Kill it. It'd be a mercy.
Ok, we may have a culture clash if and when we meet ...Irish people skirt around direct questions because a direct answer can seem rude to us. So we almost always ask if you're sure...'Would you like a cup of tea?', 'Oh I'm fine'. 'Are you sure?'. 'You're grand, I'm fine'. 'Are you sure you're sure?'. 'Ah go on so'. We don't do direct answers. You'll have to deal with it.
I love that song. Its a bandcalled My Morning Jacket. Dont be hatin'. The teacher issue is something I am gonna discuss with a friend that is a former teacher as she says thre's more to it than being reported on the news. Shocker! Smaller classes will always be a better idea. But here in Los Angeles classroom overcrowding is getting way worse. Like, WAY worse. Its not getting any better. And even when I was in school a lot of teachers seemed to not really give a fuck about what they taught of whether or not we succeeded in what we did. Yeah, there are some teachers that give a fuck but I would go so far as to say that more didnt than those that did.
Yeah, that baby nees to be killed. Sorry if it sounds rude to anyone but it does.
False outrage bothers me because it gets so uch attention and draws the focus away from things that are far more impotant going on in the world.I could spnd my show talking about this bullshit war we are in but I wont say anything new. At least I dont think I would. Maybe I will discuss it on a future show.
You Irish are a strange folk. I'll fit in with my hair though so it'll befine.
Any administration that puts pressure on teachers to get better results but increases classroom sizes is not to be taken seriously. I understand California's in a financial mess right now but if education isn't prioritised, future economic progress and social stability is fucked. No two ways around that. Have fewer children, California! Of course that leads to a whole set of other problems.
I just love the idea that you think you'd fit in because of your red hair. And why not?
How many Black guys with red hair are running around there?
I have been on the whole stop having so many damned kids train for a while. But no one listens. They just keep on cranking out these tiny loons and getting mad at teachers when they're a bunch of fucktards. Parents need to start teaching their kids before they ship them off into the world.
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I think you can really test a teacher's mettle by...giving them all the resources you need. If, for example, you reduce the teacher:pupil ratio, a teacher has more time and energy to cater to all learning styles and can take the time to engage each student properly, and can spot and solve problems early. I've never taught children, but I've taught undergraduates as a TA and as a professor and honestly, the smaller the class, the better the average mark. The bright and focussed kids will always do well, so it doesn't affect them much, but the middling students can be pushed up a grade and the struggling students can be helped to become very competent if there's enough time and energy put into them. Just my two cents as you Yanks say...my ideal class size is 5-9 students for tutorials. I always got great results with that size of a class. And if a teacher still has a dismal pass rate with a class that size, the students aren't always going to be the problem.
I hated the music you played in this podcast. Who was it, so I can avoid them? Ew.
About the false outrage thing, I'm don't think it's false, but it is very manufactured. It's been created by people with not enough to do. While I'm not trying to offend your friend, I think that how someone reacts to something offensive says a lot about them. Getting upset when someone draws your attention to something offensive that you weren't independently aware of, because it doesn't affect you, is to my mind ridiculous. There is so much potentially offensive stuff out there, are we going to get offended every time some jackass opens their mouth? And the word blasphemy was mentioned -you can only blaspheme if you are a follower of that faith, so unless Jay Z is a Christian, nothing he says can be blasphemous. This Facebook campaign or whatever is going on is to my mind an example of completely manufactured outrage. Nobody was affected by what Jay Z said, except to realise that he's happy to abuse his right to free speech by disrespecting a faith, and is therefore probably an asshole. Reacting to it by joining an angry Facebook group rather than going out and counteracting his words by being a true Christian is, I think, dumb. Hmmm. Bet I've just offended your friend. :(
Nicholas Coke? In our history, there's a guy called John (?) Cokayne. Ha. He betrayed our rebel leaders to the Brits. Baby with no brain...euuuggh. Kill it. It'd be a mercy.
Ok, we may have a culture clash if and when we meet ...Irish people skirt around direct questions because a direct answer can seem rude to us. So we almost always ask if you're sure...'Would you like a cup of tea?', 'Oh I'm fine'. 'Are you sure?'. 'You're grand, I'm fine'. 'Are you sure you're sure?'. 'Ah go on so'. We don't do direct answers. You'll have to deal with it.
I love that song. Its a bandcalled My Morning Jacket. Dont be hatin'. The teacher issue is something I am gonna discuss with a friend that is a former teacher as she says thre's more to it than being reported on the news. Shocker! Smaller classes will always be a better idea. But here in Los Angeles classroom overcrowding is getting way worse. Like, WAY worse. Its not getting any better. And even when I was in school a lot of teachers seemed to not really give a fuck about what they taught of whether or not we succeeded in what we did. Yeah, there are some teachers that give a fuck but I would go so far as to say that more didnt than those that did.
Yeah, that baby nees to be killed. Sorry if it sounds rude to anyone but it does.
False outrage bothers me because it gets so uch attention and draws the focus away from things that are far more impotant going on in the world.I could spnd my show talking about this bullshit war we are in but I wont say anything new. At least I dont think I would. Maybe I will discuss it on a future show.
You Irish are a strange folk. I'll fit in with my hair though so it'll befine.
Any administration that puts pressure on teachers to get better results but increases classroom sizes is not to be taken seriously. I understand California's in a financial mess right now but if education isn't prioritised, future economic progress and social stability is fucked. No two ways around that. Have fewer children, California! Of course that leads to a whole set of other problems.
I just love the idea that you think you'd fit in because of your red hair. And why not?
How many Black guys with red hair are running around there?
I have been on the whole stop having so many damned kids train for a while. But no one listens. They just keep on cranking out these tiny loons and getting mad at teachers when they're a bunch of fucktards. Parents need to start teaching their kids before they ship them off into the world.
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