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When you have "high stakes", you will also get teachers who fixate completely on the standards and don't teach anything else.  They will be less likely to let students pursue their own interests within the subject area as a result of staying on the "pacing guide" (in order to get through the mandated instruction).  New teachers (who feel especially vulnerable) will focus on the standards like a laser beam whether that makes sense or not for their particular students.  They will either teach at too low or too high of a level without adjusting because they have no experience in doing that and feel pressured to "teach directly and strictly to the standards".  New teachers don't have enough experience to make adjustments yet and, in general, they need to be allowed to make some mistakes in order to become good teachers (just like everyone else, teachers learn from mistakes).  If everything is scripted, they don't get to that learning process.  In "more challenging" classrooms, they are going to have more behavior problems if they aren't allowed to be flexible with the script. [/quote]

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