Posted on 02/17/2018 11:35:35 AM PST by Albion Wilde
Hmm... interesting article....
I’m saying that alphabetical seating forces some incompatible kids together, for the entire year in some cases, and it has also been measured and shown to favor the kids sitting in front (the A’s thru G’s) and that the kids in the back (P thru Z) get called on less and do slightly worse on grades. So it doesn’t matter that it is arbitrary; it still adversely affects a certain number of kids.
So I fail to see why the teacher moving the kids around from time to time to introduce other kids to them for a short period of time is any more harmful. There isn’t any pattern of seating that will be optimum for everyone — it’s all social engineering.
That's one allergy for which one does not get called a "sufferer"—LOL!
50 percent is the average and half of the population are below average while the other half are above average.
I remenber when I was in school there were some really stoopid kids that were even below the remedial ones. I always wondered how they even made it to school everyday. I knew they were not retarded just lazy.
I still remember one kid that was not physically ill nor mentally ill but he would walk slow and always dragging his feet. He thought very highly of himself and nobody else did. He had a complete lack of motivation. Even at that age I though this guy is really screwed up. I felt sorry for him and helped him out but he always wanted me to do his homework for him and I would tell him I am teaching you so you can do your own homework but he was just lazy.
My point is that some people expect everybody else to do things for them but they will not bother to do anything for themselves. Then they hate the world because they have no friends because in order to have friends you have to be a friend and treat others with common courtesy and respect.
If this kid had learned that he would not be so screwed up an a lot of people would still be alive.
BOOKMARK!
NONE of the shy students in all those classes left with their shyness being such a dominant feature of their life as it had been at the beginning of the semester. Such students were freely asking questions and volunteering comments by the end of the semester.
In short, for 30+ years, Qx proved your assertions above very inaccurate.
Sorry Jocko, there is no such thing as a "former introvert." I retired from Verizon after 40 years in telecommunications as a PMI® and ITIL® certified program and project manager. I worked on several global accounts and communicated daily with individuals all over the world, including China, Vietnam, and Russia. For a couple of years, I was our lead contact for one account headquartered in Germany with locations in thirty seven countries. I have no problem speaking to everyone I encounter around town and as a matter of fact, I truly enjoy talking to those I meet and often introduce myself after a few minutes of conversation. I still know in my soul I am an introvert. After taking the Myers–Briggs Personality Survey and Keirsey Temperament Sorter evaluation, I came to understand that Jungian psychology seems to provide a good interpretation of the way my brain is wired.
Extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum, so to be high in one necessitates being low in the other. Carl Jung and the developers of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator provide a different perspective and suggest that everyone has both an extraverted side and an introverted side, with one being more dominant than the other. Rather than focusing on interpersonal behavior, however, Jung defined introversion as an "attitude-type characterised by orientation in life through subjective psychic contents" (focus on one's inner psychic activity) and extraversion as "an attitude type characterised by concentration of interest on the external object" (focus on the outside world).[3]Mistaking introversion for shyness is a common error. Introversion is a preference, while shyness stems from distress. Introverts prefer solitary to social activities, but do not necessarily fear social encounters like shy people do.[10] Susan Cain argues in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking that modern Western culture misjudges the capabilities of introverted people, leading to a waste of talent, energy and happiness.[11] Cain describes how society is biased against introverts, and that, with people being taught from childhood that to be sociable is to be happy, introversion is now considered "somewhere between a disappointment and pathology".[12] In contrast, Cain says that introversion is not a "second-class" trait but that both introverts and extroverts enrich society, with examples including the introverts J. K. Rowling, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Seuss, W. B. Yeats, Steven Spielberg and Larry Page.[12]
Pardon me for linking to Wikipedia but that was the quickest and most concise source.
As I remember in elementary school, we walked into the classroom and sat where we wanted. The only way that changed was if two students were separated for talking in class. Once long ago it was not social engineering.
My Mother became a first grade school teacher but graduated from college the same year that I graduated from high school. I had watched her study at the kitchen table far into the night, year after year.
I will never forget that day my Sunday school teacher couldn't answer a question that one of the other children asked. I told the teacher that the answer was in the footnote at the bottom of the page. As I recall, we were in the third grade and our Sunday school teacher just so happened to be a fifth grade teacher at our elementary school. My mother had told me about footnotes while she was studying one night. I could never get Mrs. Wiseman to understand what a footnote was. This happened in rural Georgia in the 1960's.
Many years later when I told my Mother about this, and she explained that many of the teachers at our school had been hired during WWII as replacement teachers with only a two year certificate. They had been grandfathered as untouchable afterward and were allowed to teach, with no follow on courses or certification, until they retired. I had a very poor start the first five years of my education. I was only able to turn that around after I got married and enlisted in the USAF. I haven't stopped my own self study since then.
Interesting observation, with which I agree. On Judge Jeanine this evening they discussed a new HUD program (envision) designed to reach underprivileged kids with mentors (one on one) and work with them to change the choices that they are about to make in the future. This idea is a good one, because as a teacher I could not really reach out to more than a few kids each class. The program is going to be federal (which is a lousy idea) but will work locally and mentors will be drawn from all walks of life.
BTW her show was fantastic and she really took on the FBI.
Good post. I reply only because the idea has merit and you are correct that it does not reach everyone. It is part of the tool kit that every teacher should have. ( At least the good ones.)
Good post. I reply only because the idea has merit and you are correct that it does not reach everyone. It is part of the tool kit that every teacher should have. ( At least the good ones.)
Sounds good. I like her, too.
Yeah - ignoring and drugging the kids is so much easier than spending time considering how they are doing and if anything is screwed up - being a bit on the introverted side, I wouldn’t enjoy being looked at but an inconvenience for those who are content to be self sufficient doesn’t mean the ones who have a chance should be ignored.
Awesome daughter!
There is no universal solution. Nor is this article a universal solution.
My guess is that you remember the days after September or October when the teacher was still learning your names from a seating chart.
And yes, teachers and hostesses have always arranged seating for the desired social outcomes. Famiiles even do it in their homes. It's not so awfully scary.
Seating charts?! They didn't need no stinking seating charts!
In 1960, I started first grade at a rural Georgia school that held grades first through twelfth. Most of the teachers were hired as replacements for the men who went off to fight in WWII. They had two year teaching degrees from teaching colleges in the 1940's and had been grandfathered in their positions so that they held their jobs until retirement. Back then, there was no requirement to take continuing education or validate credentials. My third grade teacher was the only exception. Miss Mary Wilkerson had a real degree from a university and was by far the best elementary teacher at the school.
I only learned this many years later when my parents moved back to the community. My mother had gotten her teaching credentials in 1972, then an M.Ed. in 1976 and joined the faculty at the same school. By then, the school was no longer first through twelfth grades and had finally stepped into the twentieth century, albeit still some decades behind metropolitan schools. Several years ago a new school was built down the road and just last year, all of the old school buildings were leveled to the ground.
Now you can stop guessing.
That’s ok; I had already stopped.
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