Important read-----Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does. | Intellectual Takeout

Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does. | Intellectual Takeout
"...Self-confidence comes not by somebody “giving” it to a student. 

That method quickly fails. 

Instead, self-confidence results when the person knows they got better at something. 

My students learned to challenge themselves and overcame a weakness in their education.
Our children cannot compete on a worldwide scale anymore in science and math. 

Yet in the last two schools where I taught, I gave timed tests, and my last school was a mini-United Nations and we outscored any number of schools in one of American’s richest counties.
Students loved taking the tests – they worked. 

Is it time we reintroduce more challenges like these timed math fact tests in schools?"...Read all!!!