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Old 03-10-2015, 01:06 AM   #281 (permalink)
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Critical thinking should be taught earlier than senior year in high school, for starters. If they teach it in high school, that is. Personally I didn't do any of what I'd call critical thinking until college and I was enrolled in the AP system.
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Old 03-10-2015, 01:59 AM   #282 (permalink)
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the school i went to a teacher got shot in the face and died

also we learned how to pass the FCAT
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Old 03-10-2015, 02:07 AM   #283 (permalink)
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the school i went to a teacher got shot in the face and died

also we learned how to pass the FCAT
Was it at the school?

It makes me laugh when people talk about schools only teaching the test to students after No Child Left Behind while these same people also support AP classes. From day one those classes are directly teaching you the test, how it asks questions, how it tries to trick you, how to find answers to something you don't know in other questions, everything about the test they taught you that ****. We would take practice AP tests at least once a week.

Standardized tests? They just taught the class, no practice tests, and everyone did fine.
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as for teaching the test... we actually had to write essays in PE class to practice for the test. the school took it so seriously and had such a hard time getting people to pass that they literally forced all classes to focus on the test for a week or so.
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I think focusing on making students pass tests, when they should be focusing on making them better humans - that's the big problem with education.
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Old 03-10-2015, 07:48 AM   #286 (permalink)
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I think focusing on making students pass tests, when they should be focusing on making them better humans - that's the big problem with education.
Both should be a focus, but yes, the latter is coming too much in the background. The school should focus less on tests and exams. Instead of giving the students a boatload of tests, hoping that they pass, teachers' primary task should be to make sure that the students actually understand what they're learning. After all the schools' real aim is, or should be, preparing the students for later life. To achieve this, there must be more teachers per student than it is now, and the students should be divided into smaller classes.

Of course, I've never gone to school any other place than here in Norway, but from what I gather, these things aren't all that different elsewhere.
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I think it's one issue that can constantly be improved, and in most cases across the world improved drastically.
Kids shouldn't read great works of literature so they can quote dry chunks of analysis, they should read them because they teach them about life. The minute students aren't engaging with the material, something's went wrong.
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I think it's one issue that can constantly be improved, and in most cases across the world improved drastically.
Kids shouldn't read great works of literature so they can quote dry chunks of analysis, they should read them because they teach them about life. The minute students aren't engaging with the material, something's went wrong.
Very much this.
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Old 03-10-2015, 08:49 AM   #289 (permalink)
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Kids shouldn't read great works of literature so they can quote dry chunks of analysis, they should read them because they teach them about life. The minute students aren't engaging with the material, something's gone wrong.
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I'm pretty sure that just corroborates his criticism of the current educational system.
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