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My daughter came home from school today and immediately asked if it is rude to correct a new teacher if the information she is teaching the class is wrong. I told her it’s important that the students have the CORRECT information and that all teachers should have enough content knowledge to teach their subject and the curriculum expectations. This new teacher was unsure of the differences between symbiotic and asymbiotic relationships (a little knowledge of morphology would have helped prevent that confusion!) Since the class has a test next week, my daughter felt it was important for the class have the correct information. So she clarified the definitions for the teacher who had the definitions reversed. My point is, our education system has NOT prioritized content knowledge for so many years- instead focusing on skills alone- that we now have teachers going into the teaching profession without the knowledge they need to teach the content!! This is exactly when teachers start to rely on an “inquiry-based approach” because it’s easier to ask students to figure it out themselves than to teach what they don’t know. Direct instruction is key to learning- but for direct instruction to be effective, we also need knowledgeable teachers!! @KnowledgeMatrs @natwexler @nsachdeva2019 @New_Old_Paul