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Stan's avatar

I can’t get over the weirdness of the every teacher must become an expert at content creation fallacy.

It’s as if the logic goes great teachers can customize content for their current students so in order for everyone to be a great teacher everyone must start by creating custom content.

Is there another field where this happens?

I always think of acting as the most obvious counter example. There people who literally repeat lines entirely written by someone else and under constant direction from an expert are considered fantastic at their craft.

But it is similar in other fields where people good at their job are people who know and follow best practices passed on by others and knowing the field’s best approaches is considered plenty of work to qualify as an expert practitioner.

The cost of this fallacy must be huge in terms of frustration and lost opportunity for easily available better results.

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Ben Lawless's avatar

I'm also in favour of having more admin staff do stuff that doesn't require a postgraduate degree. They get paid far less and could allow teachers to spend more time on what they're experts at, teaching. Farm out resource preparation, photocopying, laminating, uploading marks, compliance administration...

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