If I can change one thing about education it would be standardized testing in schools. Ever since world rankings have come into play our policy makers has had a weird and uncontrollable fetish about test results. It's just a multiple choice test on information that we have been dog and pony showed into taking. We rehearse more on how to bubble in four different options then on how those four choices really mean. Looking back we use to go through "test taking" workshops. Our education has resorted to teaching us on simply how to take tests and not function with the knowledge we gain.
It seems after every class you grind out rote memorization to get an "A" but never proficient at the topic. They coach us up from once we're able to hold a #2 pencil all the way up to college admissions on a couple of tests. Teachers forced to educate their students on only the test because it is the only choice to prove that they are indeed teaching our children. But it is not a remark on how much we have learned on the subject, but merely the performance we give on opening night that we've been dress rehearsing for our K-12 life.
If educators could build around their own teaching methods(you know use their actual skill they spent four plus years honing in higher education) instead of leaving it up to a board of local politicians. Let's let our teachers relish our students in their knowledge by using the mode that's best fitted for the subject. No longer should science be taught in a cinder block, windowless room but outside in the world where science lives and breathes. Students are far too institutionalized by a school that shouldn't be blocking the creativity, but inspiring it.
I so AGREE with you. It is just stupid that these poor students are forced, or at least feel forced to teach these stupid things instead of actually teaching what they want and know, just because the test is that only thing that proves they are a good teacher... UGH
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