Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[Mr Mystery]

But Teachers know about the classroom, and how to handle difficult kids. Well, good Teachers do anyway.

Improve it? Offer more practical lessons in the early secondary years. Perhaps as an alternative to more academically pointless subjects, like RE (and I did that at GCSE), or even as after school stuff.

Get kids interested young, and show practical applications of stuff they're learning in other classes. I don't know about you, but my Maths lessons had nothing to do with my Technology lessons. Linking the lessons in that way would help.

Pure academia has failed.

[White Tiger88]

So just noticed all the new guard lists......I get the feeling my alpha legion will be needing a fair amount of anti-tank weapons.......

[Mr Mystery]

I'm sorely tempted by Guard.

[Kirsten]

guard are awesome. hopefully at the end of this month I am going to buy some raging heroes girls to make a few infantry squads to add to all my tanks. then I am going to buy some more tanks. and some more artillery. and some tanks.

[eldargal]

That's what I'm doing. Lots of RH infantry and lots and lots of GW tanks.

[Tyrendian]

I'm sorely tempted by Guard.

so am I, although that would be the first doubled-up army in my group (unless one counts the involuntary "merger" of my Iron Snakes with a buddy's Black Templars with the recent 'dex) - gonna have to think long and hard about that; adavantage being I could easily proxy a lot of stuff for the first few games

[Mr Mystery]

Got to have Tanks!

I'm up for a couple of batteries of Wyvern.

I don't care what your infantry wear into battle, all those shred templates are going to hurt!

[Kirsten]

I have a dozen or so leman russes, a manticore, a wyvern, a salamander. I want to add a deathstrike, a basilisk, a hydra, a few more russes, some sentinels...

[Wildeybeast]

You wouldn't ask an oil rigger to run BP.
Good teachers are good because they know how to teach, not all good teachers make good department heads or even heads of schools, similiarly the overall theme of what they should teach they might not be good at. It is a (slightly) different skill set.

I think the problem with the education system is that everyone feels that it si wrong, but no one is quite sure what will make it better.

Your analogy is flawed. The head of BP would not specify the minutiae of exactly how the oil rigger does his job, since he knows nothing about it. He is a businessman, not an oil rigger. Yet the role of Secretary of State for Education is to specify exactly what teachers should teach and how, as well as how we are assessed. Yet the person doing so has no more experience than having been on the receiving end of that experience many years ago. The Health minister does not tell doctors how to heal people, the transport minister does not tell people how to drive a train, yet education seems to be a special case where every government can best implement it's own ideology. Either the Education minister needs to have teaching experience or that role needs to change and far more consultation from experts needs to happen.

Furthermore, I can give you a long list of exactly how to fix education, as can every other teacher. The problem is we are never asked.

Oh and, we do not what to teach, because we know what the kids already know and what interest them. Politicians do not.

[eldargal]

I have a trio of baneblade ready to receive a RH tank commander each, really looking forward to that.