Reply to "Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to ""Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is a PERFECT example of the kind of pedantic myopia and utter and complete lack of understanding of the big picture of educational objectives and how they all fit together as building blocks that the anti-CC folks seem to be suffering from.[/quote]

Actually this is the kind of thinking that standardized testing promotes.  Sadly.  I am glad to see that you are against this type of thinking.  Start working toward making the standards less rigid and more flexible (which it sounds like you are in favor of).  The biggest help would be to get rid of the totally inflexible testing regime (NCLB).  The high stakes nature of the tests (and the tests themselves) have crippled the teacher's ability to be flexible and creative.  Are you in favor of the NCLB testing mandates?

[/quote]

I strongly disagree.  It doesn't "promote" that kind of thinking.  As I said, if you actually take the time to read the SEQUENCE in CC, you will see that it DOES NOT promote that kind of thinking.  Rather than just "this box is about attaching widget x" when you read them as a whole, it builds up an entire educational program from foundational building blocks in a way that makes sense.  If some only choose to look at "this box is about widget x" and choose to implement it by putting in a minimal effort and checking the box then that's their own problem, not the problem of CC - and those people would be a problem in the school system regardless of whether CC or NCLB existed.

As I see it, there is plenty of flexibility in CC.  It doesn't tell you how to teach, it doesn't tell you what materials to use, it doesn't tell you what not to teach, it doesn't prohibit you from being creative.

Again, it's just a minimum standard, not a proscriptive "not-to-exceed" standard.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics