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Actually, I'd suggest the tests only reveal when the teacher stops teaching to the test. Also, it's really not fair to hold the teacher's job ransom and say tha
by aestetix 15y ago
Actually, I'd suggest the tests only reveal when the teacher stops teaching to the test. Also, it's really not fair to hold the teacher's job ransom and say that if they don't teach the way the test demands, they should lose their job. How about giving them the freedom to teach based on what they feel is good for their students?
- DanBC 15y ago> How about giving them the freedom to teach based on what they feel is good for their students? The controversy about teaching children to read using either 'whole words' or 'phonics' (and sub-forms of phonics) is a nice example of some teachers not working to an evidence base and causing harm to their students.
- saulrh 15y agoEven if they aren't teaching from an evidence base and from proper research, they're better at defining requirements than the legislators simply because they're the ones in the classroom and observing their students' progress. I assume you're a programmer, so I'll reframe the question: would you rather design your APIs yourself or have the CEO of your large corporation do it for you?
- DanBC 15y agoYou know that doctors say that this treatment works, because they see it works. And then someone does a double-blind controlled trial and it turns out that treatment is useless. (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259)