"One thing I never want to see happen is schools that are just teaching the test because then you're not learning about the world, you're not learning about different cultures, you're not learning about science, you're not learning about math. All you're learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that's not going to make education interesting."Guess who said the above quote. Well, who is it?
That's right....it was said by our own President....Mr. O'Bama.
Well, I'm glad you are starting to notice what is actually happen in our school Mr. President.
Sadly, I think we are already at the point (have been there for some time now) where much of what we do in the classrooms is geared towards filling in the correct bubbles. Why is that? Teachers want to teach and they want to grow their kids....yet, at the same time they know how they are being measured if not evaluated. They know they are being judged on how well their kids fill out the bubbles.
Mr. President....what gets measured is what gets taught. Sadly, what is most valued isn't what is being measured and as a result the best we can say is that those same things we value most are not being taught (at least as much as they were before).
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If you read this to a room full of teachers, I'm sure someone will yell out an "Amen Brother!"
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