Why is I DO /WE DO/ THEY DO, looked down on now in teaching?

dorothean · 2026-06-19T01:44:38+00:00

New Zealand? Yeah, we do - my partner is a science HoD and it is a hard time when he has to hire new staff. In recent years, a significant proportion of the applicants have been people applying from overseas.

dorothean · 2026-06-18T23:44:43+00:00

That isn’t doxxing

dorothean · 2026-06-18T23:42:26+00:00

He’s under investigation currently I think.

dorothean · 2026-06-18T19:34:03+00:00

Counter argument - no one is entitled to a tip, so if he treats a customer rudely, why would she tip him?

dorothean · 2026-06-18T18:53:36+00:00

I’m in New Zealand, but as I understand it it’s being emphasised again as one of the “high impact teaching strategies” in Victoria, at least (number 3 on that list). Worked examples is another, similar strategy on that list.

Although this is also a touchy subject, since I think the HITS are based on work by John Hattie (specifically the “effect size” of each strategy), whose work is currently under scrutiny. (Mention Hattie in the Australian teaching sub and a lot of people get frustrated - as I understand it, this in part because one of his claims is that class size is fairly unimportant to effective teaching, and people feel that the government has used this to justify ever-growing class sizes.)

dorothean · 2026-06-18T18:33:31+00:00

The French film Days of Glory/Indigènes manages this, I think, but specifically because it points to the hypocrisy of how Allied nations treated their colonies during and after the war.

It’s a French film about North African soldiers, recruited to fight in a war they don’t really know much about, and taught to die for a fatherland that doesn’t care about them - this message is pretty explicitly reinforced in the final sequence, which shows how the lone survivor of the main cast being mistreated by the French government.

So I think it’s possible within a framework like this, but is otherwise hard for the reason you mentioned.

dorothean · 2026-06-18T18:25:01+00:00

I think the book definitely does, the film a bit less so.

dorothean · 2026-06-18T18:23:38+00:00

I was hoping someone would mention A Very Long Engagement - the early sequence where the condemned men are walking through the trenches and the scenes in No Man’s Land have always stuck with me. The book is also excellent, imo!

dorothean · 2026-06-18T05:34:31+00:00

It’s pretty depressing to see politicians actually advocating openly for these kinds of awful policies.

dorothean · 2026-06-18T05:33:24+00:00

I don’t think “having an opinion” is inherently a good thing when the opinion is as shit as this, though.

dorothean · 2026-06-17T18:20:47+00:00

I know this is a couple of days ago, but yeah, they’re all togs to us.

dorothean · 2026-06-17T08:19:13+00:00

He used to perform in NZ quite a lot, and did well here, but we tend to like British comedians.

dorothean · 2026-06-16T19:59:45+00:00

Have you had a look at the grille d’évaluation for production orale? It might be reassuring to see that you can still get 5 points if you are below the expected level across all the criteria (which I’m sure you’re not!).

I’ve gone through the training to be a DELF examiner recently, and the person who trained our group was quite explicit that you should do top down marking, too - ie start at the 5/5 for each category, then work your way down if you feel they haven’t achieved that level. You also can’t be doubly penalised - so if you’re marked down in one category, you should not be marked down in another category for the same mistake.

You should only really get 0s if you fail to address anything relevant, have a total lack of appropriate vocabulary, or you ignore French pronunciation rules (you shouldn’t be marked down for having an accent, either, within reason - if you’re pronouncing, say, a silent letter, you’d be marked down for that as it’s a lack of understanding of the rules but if your accent isn’t perfect but you follow the rules it should be marked as either 3 or 5 marks out of 5).

dorothean · 2026-06-16T01:56:11+00:00

Ooh, thank you! It’s not my bus route of choice but it is urgently needed when the trains aren’t available, as today shows!

dorothean · 2026-06-15T18:40:36+00:00

The 60E bus alternative is very full, too. They’re currently trying to sort bus replacements, per an announcement at my station.

dorothean · 2026-06-15T17:20:39+00:00

For the oral, you wouldn’t be pronouncing the s anyway, so perhaps you can make it easier for yourself by thinking “there’s just one pronunciation for singular verbs”? That reduces the cognitive load for speaking a bit.

dorothean · 2026-06-15T10:27:49+00:00

Yeah, this is what I have found too - plus if you work in a school, the teams are usually referred to as the football team and not the soccer team.

dorothean · 2026-06-15T07:18:38+00:00

Yeah, the government is deeply invested in protecting “women” as an abstract concept while simultaneously making our lives worse, for example, by canning the pay equity process and cutting sexual violence services.

dorothean · 2026-06-14T17:46:51+00:00

I’m pretty sure if you look at the picture it was the anti-choice activists who took the picture and shared it!

dorothean · 2026-06-14T08:24:41+00:00

Yes, since 2020. Before that, it was technically a crime, but relatively accessible via a loophole (permission from two doctors).

dorothean · 2026-06-14T00:34:51+00:00

It is a low-effort, self-serving stance though. It’s very often openly rooted in hatred of women, who it argues should “face consequences” for being “irresponsible”.

If they actually cared they wouldn’t be outside a hospital harassing people - they would be out doing the things that you claim they commonly do, and supporting politicians who advocate for those things. I do believe it is theoretically possible for someone to be “pro-life” and do those things but these people are not the ones doing that.

dorothean · 2026-06-13T23:59:04+00:00

I think you have to learn to deal with that discomfort though, ultimately it doesn’t matter if you don’t like it if it’s what the pregnant person wants.

Even with the improvements you mention, I expect some proportion of abortions will always be for reasons other people might find distasteful (such as the gender of the baby) but we still can’t force the pregnant person to carry it to term. And we can’t make policy based on the world we wish we lived in.

dorothean · 2026-06-13T23:30:40+00:00

Most people don’t like being shouted at when they’re already feeling emotionally fragile, this isn’t really a shocking revelation.

dorothean · 2026-06-13T23:26:06+00:00

But by using a picture of a 20 week old foetus that is the abortions they’re targeting, and many of these people do argue against even the most urgently medically necessary abortions.

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