tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post6930143567952946920..comments2008-08-29T10:11:36.846-05:00Corey Bunje Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764159604965707919noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post-33241934846266174322008-08-29T10:11:00.000-05:002008-08-29T10:11:00.000-05:00In my previous comment I inadvertently left out the important word “not” when I wrote “Teachers are trained in sociology or psychology.”<BR/>This is an important point for many classroom teachers. Last year I was asked by one of my administrators to more or less psychoanalyze a particular student’s behavior. I refused and said: “I have no training in psychology. My degrees are in education.” It didn’t go over well because it is so expected for us to delve into these social, home life, issues that it’s just expected that we know how to handle all the troubles our students come to us with. When did this all start, and when will – can it – end?<BR/>We teachers just want to teach.narls1969http://www.blogger.com/profile/09810516423769481888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post-2537118743700715512008-08-29T09:45:00.000-05:002008-08-29T09:45:00.000-05:00Educators are expected to be social engineers. Everything this blog is talking about has to do with social behavior, not education.<BR/>Teachers are trained in sociology or psychology. Our training is all about the classroom.<BR/>If schools are going to succeed, they need to be freed from the tyranny of the overall social network. When we speak of "paternalism" we're talking about changing a student's/family's/neighborhood's social environment.<BR/>My point: we [teachers] are not trained to do that. We're trained to teach.narls1969http://www.blogger.com/profile/09810516423769481888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post-31436887286526817922008-08-25T15:05:00.000-05:002008-08-25T15:05:00.000-05:00Rachel: I agree with you - from my experience as a college freshman, students with good high school study habits often (although not always) continued those habits into college.Attorney DCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post-44111808808979681942008-08-25T12:02:00.000-05:002008-08-25T12:02:00.000-05:00My instinct -- having taught a lot of college freshmen -- is that a lot of kids will keep up good habits, but some of the students fall apart without supervision in a fairly major way.<BR/><BR/>If schools are going the paternalistic route, I think its important to slowly reduce the supervision and monitoring as kids go through high school to help them ease into self-regulation.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08566356038836885187noreply@blogger.com