Frequent high stakes testing, hours of test prep drills, large classes
and reduction or elimination of art, music and P.E. take their toll on
students and teachers. School counselors have reported a rise in
A.D.H.D., anxiety, depression and also other psychological problems
among students. Parents have reported that around elementary school
their children are beginning to hate school and they are turning off.
Most students are bored and stressed out of the constant pressure to
execute on high stakes bubble tests. Children begin school using a
natural curiosity and intrinsic motivation to master. Learning needs to
be a satisfying process which stimulates student imagination,
creativity, ability to think for oneself and the ability to solve
conditions have multiple right answer. This sort of learning experience
will prepare students for being well-informed and productive individuals
and work in good careers later on. Many current educational
environments are smashing the spirits of scholars and teachers and
therefore are switching off intrinsic motivation to understand and
teach. Many wealthy and powerful individuals (and organizations) with
little or no teaching experience are influencing educational policies
which are destructive. They may be and only frequent high stakes
testing, large classes, closing public schools and reducing courses
inside the arts except with regards to their own children. Their young
children usually attend private schools with small classes, health
support services, plenty of courses from the arts and no frequent high
stakes standardized tests with hours of test prep drills. This really is
hypocritical and inhumane. Children need to be emotionally healthy to
live successful and fulfilling lives as adults.
The way in which many students are being treated is lowering their a
sense self-worth, diminishing their creativity, blocking their potential
and teaching these to be less compassionate and empathetic. Teachers
should be permitted to teach that will create their particular lesson
plans in line with the curriculum actually teaching. They need time for
you to teach students to consider by themselves instead of spending
hours doing test prep. They also need time to collaborate along with
other teachers. You can find schools that happen to be excellent types
of education for example the one inch Finland. As an alternative to
modeling our education system after successful ones, the U.S. is
following in the footsteps of educational systems like the one in Chile
the %u201Cfree market%u201D disaster. The alterations that are needed
for a great education system is not going to come from the top down
until there's enough action and pressure from the bottom up. Students,
parents, teachers and school administrators will have to protest in
thousands ahead of the PTB could make necessary changes. An example of
this occurred recently in Texas. Mothers who had been angry about every
one of the high stakes testing convinced their state politicians to take
some action. They voted to reduce how much yearly standardized tests
from fifteen to 5. Let 2019s reawaken an affection of learning within
our students, treat them with humane values and give our teachers
possibilities to teach students to think for their own reasons.
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