Teacher gives epic resignation in video — from eSchoolNews.com by Meris Stansbury
“Everything I love about teaching is now extinct.”
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After listening to this, I can’t help but reflect on the run-away train/emphasis on standardized tests. It appears that not only has such an emphasis robbed the joy, curiosity, wonder, initiative, and creativity of our students, but also that of our teachers.
With each day that passes, I want to see more programs and opportunities that support an amazing variety of pathways and choices. We each have different gifts, abilities, passions, callings, etc. — teachers as well as students. The very words “standards” and “standardization” seem to be incongruous with how we are actually made.
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Perhaps I should have called this posting, “Assessment gone awry…?”