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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Chapter 9
The beginning of this chapter described my childhood: new words on monday, memorize during the week, fail test, forget the few definitions I even remembered. The suggestions given were very logical things I think every generation of teachers may think as they go into the field and then forget. During the first suggestion, it seemed completely ludicrous to me to think these teachers didn't realize how overwhelming and unnecessary the words they were giving were and that they didn't notice they honestly didn't think the students would use them. They knew it was about teaching to a test, but seemed to ignore it. Maybe our generation of incoming teachers is the first to realize this, but I doubt it. There seems to be such a ridiculous disconnect between being a teacher and being a student and teachers don't take into account what it's like to be the student.
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Interesting point - as teachers do we tend to forget what it is like to be a student?
The point you made about our generation of incoming teachers not being the only generation to realize students are only being taught to the test scared me a little bit. As an incoming teacher I have huge ideals of how my classroom will be different, as all of do, and I'm sure that the teachers who are now "teaching to the test" once were full of ideals as well. Will I, or any of us, become a "teaching to the test" teacher? What can we do to hold onto our ideals as well as fit into the current school trends?
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