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School studies are more like a marathon, where the main thing is to run the distance at all costs, cutting corners and pushing rivals. Such a “pursuit of knowledge” does not imply a desire to look around and just enjoy the process.
The job of a teacher is exciting. But in any job, no matter how interesting it may be, there are inevitable and unpleasant responsibilities. In this case, grading. Evaluation is a convention that consists of a huge number of aspects, and we do not always speak directly about knowledge. Charisma, good mood, luck – everything goes into business. I myself often used all this arsenal – both at school and at the university. But at seminars on child psychology, having found myself on the other side of the barricades, I realized that the desire for objectivity is most often lost precisely when grading.
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- Let’s stop putting pressure on our children!
The censure of losers, habitual for Soviet upbringing, is gradually losing its positions. We know many examples when school losers with triples in their diaries achieved incredible success in life. Among them are Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and many others.
Giving a student a good mark means giving him a podium, a shining prize, for which he had to overcome an obstacle course.
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- How to help study without stress
Modern philosophy, following the outstanding thinker Immanuel Kant, insists that everything in the world is relative and subjective. Evaluation is always the result of the teacher’s judgment. Conditionality. Only in our schools this fact is not taken into account by anyone. The assessment is absolutized, and the whole educational process is more like a marathon, where the main thing is to run the distance at all costs, cutting corners and pushing rivals aside. The only difference is that you can participate in the marathon if you wish, and attending the school is mandatory for everyone. The problem with this race is that it does not involve the desire to look around and just enjoy the process. The student simply does not have enough time to think about where and why he is running.
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- They are (too) concerned about the success of their children!
But if a good grade is a convention, why should teachers give it more often? After all, the main value is not a five, but the work that stands behind it, and not memorization of the material, but a conscious search for knowledge. Only a truly conscious work, passed through the prism of one’s consciousness, can be beneficial, open up prospects, and change life for the better. So why don’t we start from the school bench?