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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm not against national standards, but in the US you've got to give more flexibility and provide paths. We have to stop kicking ourselves down and bring our students up. All the tests are demoralizing to students and communities. They are looking for real solutions. Show how kids can be successful. Don't show them more failure. Also, when teachers have nothing but penalties when they struggle, it's very disheartening. Who wants a job where they are asked to do more than they physically can and then they get beaten down for it. [/quote]

The other thing that happens when the feds put in all these mandates is that there is little time left for "in the trenches creative problem solving".  By this I mean that everyone is directed at working with whatever the feds are promoting and concern is all around those things.  This leaves no time for teachers who have great ideas to develop them for their own students.  Those ideas could be the best ones because they are based on the needs of the students directly [b]in front of them[/b] at any given time.  Teaching has to be about the students any given teacher has at the moment (and this is the exciting part about teaching; no two classes are the same throughout an entire career).  With all the PLC meetings, goal setting based on new standards, etc. there is little time for this creative process to happen.  Teachers have lots of ideas, but there is no time for them to develop them into real classroom instruction.  This is especially problematic for young teachers who are just starting to develop their teaching styles.  My big fear is that the teachers who have entered in the post NCLB period are going to remain "paint by numbers" teachers because they have never experienced the art of teaching.  With all the tests and data, it's all about the science now.  It is so sad.    [/quote]

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