Much ink has been spilled over this issue, and Im about to spill a bit more: Look to the private schools or even some small European countries systems. State mandated curricula actually do more harm than good. There should be general guidelines no doubt, but the kids themselves should be as much a part of deciding the curriculum as the administrivia. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to education as no two people think exactly the same way. When you have an open feedback loop between students and teachers, it not only helps teachers grasp where their students are mentally, it actually encourages students (especially the ones with ADD...) to participate. It becomes a learning experience for all parties involved and not just rote memorization of (mostly outdated and obsolete) facts. Once the state gets involved, teachers are helpless to do what they know is best for their individual students and circumstances. Technology will never help as long as what theyre teaching has no resonance with kids or bearing on the real world... This is as much of a political problem as it is an education problem. In short, school is supposed to teach you how to think and reason, not create human databases... Im quite sure Im not alone in this way of thinking. Like I said, those private schools dont seem to have this problem, but who can afford private school? The money and budgeting is already there. Turning public schools into businesses will only make things worse by holding faculties to unreasonable numeric standards... Ive always thought that if the rest of my classmates had been in the gifted programs with me, they wouldve blown me and the other gifted students out of the water (any many did anyway!). The ones who failed: they didnt fail school. School failed them, and it wasnt the (good) teachers fault...
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:41:46 +0000
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