If you are interested in public
education in America and our new “Common Core” of Standards, I urge you to read
this article from the
Washington Post. I love having new technology in the classroom. I love
how innovative teachers can make their classroom based
on the amount of information exchanges from teacher to teacher and from class
to class. However, creative teaching should always
be the focus.
Some of the materials that are being produced by the
companies claiming to support Common Core Standards are very scripted and leave
little room for growth for the students. Wow. The true form of “dumbing down”
America. Do politicians and administrators have so little faith in the people
who spend years in school to train minds how to grow and learn that they feel
it necessary to dictate exactly how the material is taught? Do they think
monkeys can do this? Isn’t anyone on the teacher’s side anymore? There used to
be a day and age when teachers were highly respected and some of the most
intelligent people in the world occupying the field.
Come one folks! Let’s get a conversation going about
these issues!
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