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This is because teachers are themselves graded on standardized test results. Standardized tests don't give a crap about curiosity. So classroom instruction in
by quadrifoliate 4y ago
This is because teachers are themselves graded on standardized test results. Standardized tests don't give a crap about curiosity.
So classroom instruction in the US ends up being mostly about the teachers making sure that their students won't drastically underperform on the standardized test.
- y42 4y agoThis! I sucked in school, had to leave early because of my performance. I was just bothered by those linear performance assessment strategies. Though I suck in every piece of information, technologies, biology, mathematics, physics, psychology... Whatever. It makes me sad knowing, that the current system focusses on performance and leaves behind so many briliant people, and I don't even consider myself briliant.
- biofox 4y agoHaving taught for several years, I agree that this is part of it. A much bigger reason is the need to avoid or reduce distractions. A class of 30 students all going off on separate tangents unrelated to the lesson plan, or unrelated the subject of the class, is unmanageable.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoI think most teachers just don’t care. In highschool, I remember asking my math teacher about ruler’s identity, and she had never heard of it. In middle school our math teacher told us pi was exactly 22/7. In elementary school one of my teachers said there was no gravity on the moon. My highschool chemistry teacher told us that if you put two cheerios in a bowl of milk, they move towards each other because of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoAs it turns out, there is gravity on the moon: you just need math to prove it (no wonder an elementary teacher thought otherwise). Safer just to wear heavy boots.
- ChadNauseam 4y ago*euler's