Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more recruits who are themselves only average students. Says James Koerner, author of The Miseducation of American Teachers: "Teachers are not trained as adequately as the public thinks they are." Typically, over half the courses an education student takes are in methodology and not m the subjects he will teach...
...suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
Students tend to rate Marshfield an easy school. They teach you how to write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds...
...broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty field and left there for hours to cope with his fears. The theory is that terror drains away once it is faced directly...
...Agoraphobia, has treated 1,200 agoraphobics in person and 4,000 more with records, tapes and letters. In her opinion, behaviorists are on the wrong track when they train agoraphobics to avoid panic. Says she: "Recovery lies in the attack itself and learning to cope with it. If you teach people to avoid panic, when it comes, they fall apart and relapse." Her advice: "float" with the anxiety attack, don't fight...