How do highschools work? Poorly.Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.
Quote from: Epsira on December 11, 2014, 01:09:18 PMHow do highschools work? Poorly.Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.Dude, fuck off.I'm not going to be able to change to whole school system where I live in such a short time that I get into the class without getting good grades; and this isn't a thread for you to complain, but rather a thread for my consolation.
In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
Quote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:15:12 PMIn secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.
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Quote from: BritishLemön on December 11, 2014, 01:23:49 PMQuote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:15:12 PMIn secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.
Quote from: Naru on December 11, 2014, 01:16:55 PMThey don'tI was gonna make that joke...
Quote from: DAS B00TINATOR on December 11, 2014, 01:27:20 PMQuote from: Naru on December 11, 2014, 01:16:55 PMThey don'tI was gonna make that joke...I expected it to be here when I clicked on this thread. Too disappoint.
Quote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:25:29 PMQuote from: BritishLemön on December 11, 2014, 01:23:49 PMQuote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:15:12 PMIn secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.Everyone in my school only had to pick 2 regardless of if they were top tier students.Languages weren't options, because the only language that was taught at my school was Spanish, and nobody wanted to do that so they dropped it entirely.
Quote from: BritishLemön on December 11, 2014, 01:29:07 PMQuote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:25:29 PMQuote from: BritishLemön on December 11, 2014, 01:23:49 PMQuote from: Fedorekd on December 11, 2014, 01:15:12 PMIn secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.Everyone in my school only had to pick 2 regardless of if they were top tier students.Languages weren't options, because the only language that was taught at my school was Spanish, and nobody wanted to do that so they dropped it entirely.how can you not want to do spanish>is doing spanish a2
Quote from: Epsira on December 11, 2014, 01:09:18 PMHow do highschools work? Poorly.Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.So how the hell do you get kids to love maths? You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.
Quote from: Raptor the Kid (24) on December 11, 2014, 01:49:02 PMQuote from: Epsira on December 11, 2014, 01:09:18 PMHow do highschools work? Poorly.Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.So how the hell do you get kids to love maths? You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.By teaching them to embrace struggle if it frustrates them as opposed to suggesting alternatives or decreasing math exposure. Teaching them that math is not really a static concept to be written on boards and tested on, that the abstractions we use to express it can't fully give light to its universal beauty, that to understand those things we have to see it functioning in action. People like getting over humps and understanding content after struggling with it, the "aha!" moment where everything clicks. If education could put that alone to use more often, I think we'd see an improvement in people enjoying education instead of seeing it as an obstacle to overcome Why would this notion garner a -1?
How do high schools work where you live?
