Submitted by Bonnie Bracey( Sutton) (not verified) on March 14, 2007 - 19:24.
There are not many people who have lived through educational policies that excluded them from
science, physical education and the arts. As a child I was restricted in these learnings. The teacher who speaks about the gifted also has a case. Many student are restricted to grade level learnings, and are bored, or passive about education. I have been a teacher of the gifted. I believe I became proactive about the gifted because of my own experience.
I did find that using technology, it was possible to be inclusive about populations of children in a single classroom, and that I could provide resources and information for most of the children at a level according to their ability.
Obviously the people who crafted no child left behind have never taught school. Kids are not cookies , a batch baked correctly , all turning out the same way. There are many influences, variables, and experiences that shape a child's learning. To mandate a constant use of testing as the answer to student learning is misguided.
Where are the uses of technology including the insertion of metadata for learning in just in time bytes, that is with a variance of use, that incorporate various learning styles as in simulated learning similar to games.
The business leaders who want to help us often choose the wrong people to push the message. In Congress yesterday with the ideas of innovation following the Convocation of the Gathering Storm, the ideas are good, but seem to point toward inserting testing for science in NCLB.
It would be good if the people who help to define what it is that we teach have some teaching experience and the same qualifications that they ask us to have. That is, what are the qualifications of Margaret Spellings?
There are not many people
Submitted by Bonnie Bracey( Sutton) (not verified) on March 14, 2007 - 19:24.
There are not many people who have lived through educational policies that excluded them from
science, physical education and the arts. As a child I was restricted in these learnings. The teacher who speaks about the gifted also has a case. Many student are restricted to grade level learnings, and are bored, or passive about education. I have been a teacher of the gifted. I believe I became proactive about the gifted because of my own experience.
I did find that using technology, it was possible to be inclusive about populations of children in a single classroom, and that I could provide resources and information for most of the children at a level according to their ability.
Obviously the people who crafted no child left behind have never taught school. Kids are not cookies , a batch baked correctly , all turning out the same way. There are many influences, variables, and experiences that shape a child's learning. To mandate a constant use of testing as the answer to student learning is misguided.
Where are the uses of technology including the insertion of metadata for learning in just in time bytes, that is with a variance of use, that incorporate various learning styles as in simulated learning similar to games.
The business leaders who want to help us often choose the wrong people to push the message. In Congress yesterday with the ideas of innovation following the Convocation of the Gathering Storm, the ideas are good, but seem to point toward inserting testing for science in NCLB.
It would be good if the people who help to define what it is that we teach have some teaching experience and the same qualifications that they ask us to have. That is, what are the qualifications of Margaret Spellings?