I read on social media: “The teachers question in 2025 as in 1890. So they are ineffective and generate anxiety”. I thought about my experience and that of my children and I have to say, with a certain bitterness, little has changed.
Lara
Dear Larayour school experience is much more recent than 1890. Your school, that of your children and mine, are different from what school was until the 1960s.
In any case, the comment you read, although exaggerated, highlights aspects that still link the school to old educational and pedagogical models. Models learned from students on school desks and who have become a guide for those who have decided to be a teacher.
Unfortunately, There is still no adequate training to become teachersespecially in middle and high school. Many arrive in class with a solid academic training, but little experience on how to really evaluate the ways to grow.
And also young colleagues who are attending the qualifying courses for teaching, they show me an experience that refers to the contents to be taught, but much less on how to teach them and how to check the learning methods.
It is then easy to fall back into “it has always been done”: frontal question, task, vote. Without stopping to reflect that The evaluation should be anything elsea path, a dialogue. He should help the student understand where he is and how to improve.
The post invites us to change course with clear evaluation grids, authentic tasks, self -assessment. Tools that do not remove rigor but make sense.
For a less anxious and more educational school you have to start here: from how we look and accompany the growth of those in front of us.
