Submitted by Bill Murphy (not verified) on January 30, 2008 - 13:44.
The idea of standardized testing seems backwards from what teacher education focuses on. We are taught different learning styles and the several multiple intelligences. Lessons must be differentiated and reach each unique learner. Special education students, IEP's, and ESL's must be accounted for. Bloom and the like are stressed everyday. Creating a student that is also a person and who is prepared for the 'real world' is more and more our job. However, when it comes time to measure student achievement, we use a "Sit down and fill in the bubble" approach that benefits the logical thinking, linguistic, efficient, teacher-pleasers.
The idea of standardized
Submitted by Bill Murphy (not verified) on January 30, 2008 - 13:44.
The idea of standardized testing seems backwards from what teacher education focuses on. We are taught different learning styles and the several multiple intelligences. Lessons must be differentiated and reach each unique learner. Special education students, IEP's, and ESL's must be accounted for. Bloom and the like are stressed everyday. Creating a student that is also a person and who is prepared for the 'real world' is more and more our job. However, when it comes time to measure student achievement, we use a "Sit down and fill in the bubble" approach that benefits the logical thinking, linguistic, efficient, teacher-pleasers.