u/SamuelFontFerreira — reddlx

How would you like your teachers were to you?

I work with supplementary education in STEM. I teach mostly Math, but I also teach Chemistry, Engineering and Physics. I serve mostly the Sino-Canadian community.

In the beginning of June, I'll be teaching a 10 years old child that is some sort of a Math prodigy. I don't think the topics will be a problem, neither the age group, as I've taught them before. But I'm worried about the overall experience of the child, I don't want her to feel pressured but I also want her to feel chalenged and engaged.

When I was that age, the overall anxiety and inadequacy I felt made me not engage wit my full potential (as I see now). I don't want my students to feel that and try my best to not put them under unnecessary pressure.

As long as I deliver the curriculum and send homework, I have a lot of freedom. So based on your experiences, how would you suggest me to address this class?

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u/SamuelFontFerreira — 2 days ago

▲ 2 r/Teachers

Hello from Brazil!

I teach college admission exam preparations, such as SAT and AP exams. A lot of students want to use these exams to boost their college applications, and a lot of them want to study in the USA.
However, it have been unsettling to see some students jump all the hoops to get admitted into an world-class university, only to find out they won't be able to go due the cost of fees and living expenses. I understand that this is partially due a lack of financial planning from their parent's side, but also some schools here overestimate the possibility of getting scholarhips from the universities. As a teacher, I'd like to see my students succeed.
I'm aware that some organizations offer scholarships, I even recommended my students to check scholarships.com and https://scholarships360.org/ but most of them would not fit in these sites target audience.
Are there some lesser known organizations that would be able to help? About half of my students are atheletes or some sort, I don't know if this might be relevant.

u/SamuelFontFerreira — 22 days ago

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Despite not being the legal norm in my country (monarchy ended in 1889), some former aristocratic families kept doing Frankish law, basically the the older son inherited all the estate. My family was one of those. A few generations before mine they went broke. Now I have an upper middle class life.

This system of inheritance looks very fragile and rifed towards growing inequality, even within the same family. How it kept going for so long? Wouldn't the other sons revolt? How did the nobles dealt with the resentment about the older brother?

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u/SamuelFontFerreira — 22 days ago