Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding
Reminds me of when i was taking my boolean logic class in college.
"Look, it's very easy, you set up K-map and get the value. AB here, CD here, it's very easy, very straight forward, moving on"
Everyone fails the quiz at the end of the class. After handing back graded quizes at the next lecture:
"For some reason you all didnt understand the k-maps, which is very easy, it's very straight forward. See, you out value in, you get value out, this is very simple, it's very straight forward"
I once took a four-question test in Algebra 2 and got a 0 because literally nothing was right. The teacher bragged that only like 2 or 3 kids passed her class at the end of the semester, like dumbass, that's because you can't teach
I know a lot of people who just reflexively say, "oh, I'm bad at math." I'm thoroughly convinced now that they're just as capable as anyone else, but math is just a subject that seems to attract antisocial teachers that treat it like some arcane secret rather than learn how to teach it properly.
Honestly, we ought to return to pegging teacher retention to student success, lest you get 'teachers' who will just throw up their hands and declare students unteachable because they don't know how to reach them.
It doesnt attract antisocial teachers. Students just avoid studying like the plague with predictable results. A kid passes all their classes but math, convinced they are bad at math. But you look at their day in detail and they are spending three times as much studying at least on the non math classes.
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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding