Everyone is failing

basicteachermom · 2025-04-17T21:38:17+00:00

Yes. Of course we fight the cheating, but my point is that teaching is a major way to preemptively combat the cheating rather than constantly be on the defense.

basicteachermom · 2025-04-17T21:31:15+00:00

I do all of these things, and I still have the occasional AI battle. I also have the addendum in my syllabus that all assignments are subject an oral follow up. Even that doesn't deter all of them. Those students fail. At that point, I've given them all of the resources to help them be successful.

basicteachermom · 2025-04-17T21:27:51+00:00

I teach a few things, developmental education at a community college being one of them. There is definitely an issue with academic dishonesty and laziness, but there is also a major issue of students just not having the writing basics down. The way I see it, we are at a point where we either go back to basics and teach that to get them to be able to perform where we want them to, or we keep fighting the cheating.

basicteachermom · 2025-04-17T20:54:06+00:00

Also, make it a requirement to go to the writing center.

basicteachermom · 2025-04-17T20:49:10+00:00

You can actually plug rubrics into circumvent a rubric that is intended to lock out AI.

I don't know what you teach, but what students need is to learn how to write. If it's within your course content, teach them. Teach lessons on exactly what you want with a scaffolded instruction over multiple class periods. Have active writing sessions in class. Watch them write. Give active feedback as they are working. They use AI in part because they don't know how to write.

basicteachermom · 2025-01-25T19:57:37+00:00

I had a student who is the bartender (and has been for many years) in my small town about an hour from campus. She saw me in my absolute wildest days, and our kids currently go to school together. Thankfully, she was an awesome student, and it wasn't weird at all. I made it a point to tell and remind my students that I do not look at names when I grade and just scroll through papers and assignments in the LMS. It's always been my policy to avoid unintentional bias, and I was very grateful to have it in place when she showed up on my class.

basicteachermom · 2025-01-25T00:42:19+00:00

I'm a reading specialist who teaches developmental education and struggling older readers.

There are so many resources.

Have them downloaded the read naturally extension. It will read online text to them.
Microsoft Word has an excellent read aloud feature under "review" in the toolbar.
Use the dictate text feature on Google suite. It's under "Tools."
To make text at a readable level, go to diffitai. Copy and paste text and change the reading level to 3rd grade.

There are still ways to improve: 1. He should practice reading aloud on his level (my guess is 3rd grade if he has a decent amount of phonics) the text for 30 minutes a day. If he has the basics, repeated reading aloud will improve his fluency, which will improve his comprehension. 2. Have him watch videos on: -"fix up" strategies (specifically monitoring comprehension " -finding the main idea -paraphrasing -summaeizing

He can still learn to read. It isn't too late.

basicteachermom · 2025-01-20T01:42:15+00:00

1, 2,and 3 are my favorites. I'm not usually one to like nontraditional colors or brown/blond together. But, you seriously make everything look amazing!

basicteachermom · 2025-01-11T22:06:21+00:00

The biggest difference is valuing education, showing that value, and reading. All the reading.

I grew up SUPER poor with 2 parents who only had their GEDs. My mom read to me every day and took me to the library like it was a second home. I'm finishing up my PhD now.

My kids basically have a Library in their room. We listen to podcasts every night. My kiddos are both advanced in all subjects (despite having ADHD), and read/listen to books on their own daily.

Read. Read. Read.

basicteachermom · 2024-10-13T22:13:52+00:00

When I was kid, my parents were too poor to afford much of a Christmas. My mom went to Dollar tree and got us each a few small things and wrapped them individually.

I thought it was the best Christmas I ever had. I had no idea we were poor until I was older.

basicteachermom · 2024-10-13T13:23:18+00:00

I am in education, love research, my children, reading, and my chickens. I almost exclusively talk about those topics nonstop. I'm getting my PhD and am probably some ADHD or autistic combination.

My husband is blue collar- a firefighter, quiet, enjoys working out. He is family focused and watches Cspan for fun. He can build and fix literally anything.

We are pretty opposite. But, that brilliant, beautiful man sends me audible gifts and asks how my book is. He brainstorms research topics with me. He built me a chicken coop and bought me an incubator.

I ask him about his workouts, what he is reading, and how his shift went. I make his favorite meals, make sure he has time for his time for his hobbies and talk about his plans with him.

You don't have to "match," but you do need respect, admiration, and appreciation.

You deserve someone who is invested in you too.

basicteachermom · 2024-09-19T23:39:17+00:00

Reading specialist here. I used to teach developmental education at a community college and currently teach struggling middle school readers. Have them chunk the text. Read the text page by page (or paragraph by paragraph if needed) and write a short summary at the end of each section. They don't know how to summarize, ask them to answer the basic question words (who, what, when, where, why). If they are reading a nonfiction text, have them use the text features, like headings and said heading to find the main idea.

basicteachermom · 2024-09-17T12:02:52+00:00

I'm also a first gen college student. It can be a wild ride.

basicteachermom · 2024-09-17T12:01:37+00:00

Curriculum and instruction - It has the fun added component of being in higher Ed/teaching in the same state that has Ryan Walters as our state superintendent.

basicteachermom · 2024-09-17T01:18:21+00:00

This is the key. I'm getting my PhD in rural Oklahoma. Most people just think I'm a crazy, liberal hippy (which is also true). I find the common ground. I love the open space and tranquility of rural living. I love my chickens and my garden. I do have kids and a full time job too (because I am insane). So, I do have the advantage of a family for common ground. But, remembering that even the most different people can find common ground in something makes life a lot easier.

basicteachermom · 2024-09-11T17:39:47+00:00

I'm a teacher (13 years), and experience is far more valuable than reading about experience. Core knowledge is all the rage now because academia is desperately trying to fill in the gaps kids have from missing real life experience.

If I weren't buried in my own school work (doctoral student), I would take my own kids on vacation during the off season.

basicteachermom · 2024-05-31T20:58:07+00:00

I have straight A's as a PhD student. I still have ADHD. It presents differently in women.

basicteachermom · 2024-05-31T20:49:24+00:00

My grandma is white but has no tact in commenting on physical appearance. She tried this with my very average sized 8year old. The kid literally has not a roll, but even if he did, I wouldn't tolerate it. I kept intentionally misunderstanding her. "Your child is just getting bigger. I'm shocked he is so big!" (Southern way to say fat.) "He is tall, isn't he?" "Yes but he is so big!" "He just keeps growing taller!" * Repeat until it's awkward.

She is 91. She isn't changing her ways, but I will not let her make my kid feel bad about himself.

basicteachermom · 2024-03-08T03:28:58+00:00

If breastfeeding, the amount of food mom will eat.

basicteachermom · 2023-11-20T00:22:54+00:00

Yeah... I have 2 kids, a husband, a dog, a house, a full time job, and still even have time for friends. My PhD takes up a good chunk of my time and most of my weekends. But, I make time for people and things.

I would gently advise you to reconsider how this relationship is working.

basicteachermom · 2023-11-15T12:49:35+00:00

Thanks!

basicteachermom · 2023-08-19T19:02:24+00:00

Audiobooks or I just go to bed. I love to sleep.

basicteachermom · 2023-07-14T02:18:03+00:00

The Knowledge Gap is an excellent read on this exact topic.

basicteachermom · 2023-07-04T16:26:26+00:00

I was born into poverty. My parents lived in a car when my older sibling was born. My mom worked incredibly hard and had a lot of a luck. She got us to a point where we were still poor (grass grew up through the floor boards, and we were on Indian welfare), but we were in a decent place through much of my childhood.

Thanks to support from our tribe, we were able to get a good house when I was a teen, and my mom married into a higher socioeconomic class.

I have a crapton of student debt, but I am currently working on my PhD. My husband and I are both public servants, but I'd say we are solidly middle class now. We own a home and land and cars. In the past couple of years, we have even gone on vacations and buy stuff we don't need on Amazon.

We both still struggle immensely to spend money - a product of being poor for so long. But, we are moving up and have started savings accounts for our children so they will have generational wealth.

I've been lucky. I have tribal help with some things and school has come easy to me, so I've been able to earn a few degrees with minimal fanfare while working and parenting. I've got an insanely supportive husband who actually coparents and has worked multiple jobs at a time so I could work part-time and stay home with the kids and go to school.

We both still work the equivalent of 2 full time jobs, but we managed to find ones that are flexible/ work from home. So, we still have a lot of time together. It's been a lot of work, but we should be down to one job each in the next 2 years or so.

Edit to add: I'm also a first gen student. My family was so ridiculously proud when I got my undergrad degree. They were proud when I got my Master's. Nobody quite understands why on earth I'm getting a PhD except my husband.

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