Chapter 4

Scripted Instruction. What a terrible idea. Reading about this almost infuriated me. The concept basically states to memorize a set of instruction and to regurgitate it to your students and they will understand and to just push on. Last time I checked, education had to deal with human beings- not robots. With a human being, emotions and difference in intelligence levels come into play and the ability to comprehend comes in different forms. There is not 1 right way to teach all people in one classroom, so to theoretically "script" your classroom is as bad as having all of education become standardized. The personalization and one on one attention needed just isn't there in a classroom like that and it completely ignores all classroom management and varied teaching approaches understanding that students are all at different levels and come from different backgrounds. There is never a reason to treat a classroom like a theater and just ramble off some memorized words for the students to memorize themselves and then call it a day. That is not knowledge in the least bit.