Suddenly, rather than allowing teachers to use their expertise, experience, and knowledge to create units aligned to the new standards, teachers were now being handed scripted units to use instead. Units that were not created by teachers, but rather large businesses that did not take into account the different demographics or needs of each district. These modules have taken the creativity away from the teacher. They have taken hands on activities out of the classroom and replaced them instead with close reads and textual evidence lesson after lesson... I stand by my statement that these challenges don’t make our kids feel like they are on the road to being college and career ready in fourth grade. It makes them feel like failures. Why? Because even though they know that 6×5=30, they still got the answer wrong on the test because they weren’t able to “decompose” the problem properly.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:44:38 +0000
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