Today, the 1st grade team had our collaboration with our schools math specialist and principal. We talked about goals in making A.Y.P this year and structuring tier 3 intervention groups for math. As we reviewed our data, we naturally got on the subject of No Child Left Behind.
Doing my student teaching in a school that didn’t make A.Y.P has really opened my eyes to the issues of standardized testing and No Child Left Behind. Teaching to the test is both overwhelming and immoral. Our principal brought up the question “Are we doing a disservice to students by teaching to the test?”
As she asks this question, out of the corner of my eye I see the students running on the playground, kicking a soccer ball, and laughing. They are children, wanting to live and learn. But today as an educator, I feel this pressure to teach to a test, to belittle their experience, and show them that all their education is worth nothing more than a test score.
This isn’t the way it should be…
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