Suppose for a moment that the goal of teaching is to imbue your students with knowledge.
K=pJTB
Teacher: one who gives knowledge to his or her students.
So would you be a failed teacher if.
a) What you say is not true.
b) Your student is not convinced.
c) You don't believe it (but its in the curriculum).
I know the above statements are vague. It is to stimulate conversation on the words used in this post itself.
Also, mention any other circumstances that might define a failed teacher.
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I'd have to say that you would be a failed teacher if what you say is not "true" or if you don't believe it (though this means that you are not really giving knowledge to your students, in a technical sense) but if the students aren't convinced, I'd say that you are giving the knowledge but that the students are not accepting it
I would say that teaching is not to nessesarily to give you something that is completely true 100% of the time. Or is it there to convince you and tell you what you should believe. By simply telling us what we need and want to know, we do not grow as humans or critical thinkers. I believe teaching should give you several bases from which you draw your opinions and beliefs off of, that you will carry for the rest of you life in order to make desisions. Perhaps teaching on a deeper level is not for the knowledge of trivial fact, but for the knowledge of how we become an individual in that we decide our beliefs and values based on not only what we have learned, but our experiences as well. However the definition of knowledge right now to me is unclear. If you have knowledge according to this equation (for lack of a better word) thingy you have a properly justified true belief. A big part of human nature to me is the fact that we are always trying to better ourselves. Is it possible that if you have knowledge, you can technically go no farther because that is a properly justified true belief. This is pure speculation any ideas?
What if what you teach is percieved to be the truth currently, but is later proven wrong. This happens often enough. For example pluto, I was taught it was a planet, but now it isn't. I don't think that the teacher failed. They are told to teach was is generally accepted, whether or not it is truth.
But perhaps Pluto never was a planet and we just now stopped giving it a false name. I.E. the earth is flat, and still is, even though we now say it is round.
Teaching needs to be two way, but it is important not to believe everything at face value. You need to make your own judgements, and not base your knowledge just on what is said in a book, or by a teacher.
I agree that we should all question what we are to taught and that that is the REAL purpose of teaching but I maintain that in a TECHNICAL sense the teacher could be a failure as stated above
What is truth?, ANyway yes we all are succesful teachers only because we inherently need to lie, god picks certain things, "cough election", and he also forces us to lie and thus become successful. Indocrinating us with knowledge is still teaching successfully. but alas What do I know, SO thus I think if enough teachers lie consistently false truths occur and thus false knowledge, and thus success, since Knowledge is POWER.
Say a teacher was teaching truth, but that truth is very hard to believe. Therefore if the teacher cannot make his/her students accept that knowledge, then that teacher is not doing a very good job. A teacher must know how to teach in such a way that students will accept the knowledge given to them. And if the teacher does not know the truth, then they should not try to teach it at all.
But how can you know what is "right"(I mean, it depends on what the purpose is but, that aside (to steal from Evan)) isn't "right" a PJTB? so thusly true knowledge?
If the teacher is to be sucessful than they must believe what they teach and so they would have to believe the cirriculum so they would both be "right"?
I'll read he/she alright. It's an excellent commentary on the social climate.
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