My Utopian Education System
I have been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of supposing lately as I read different educational blogs. Many of the blogs I read are in regards to the affects of standardized tests, grading, and achievement in the classroom. So how do you get kids to achieve in the classroom? How do you get students to understand that it is not the mark they get, but the learning they take away from this course that is what matters? Why are teachers being forced to give standardized tests, that only take a snapshot of the whole year, not an actual measurement of the whole year? I for one never did well on multiple choice tests or true and false tests. It truly did become a guessing game for me when I had to take these tests, even if I felt I had learned the material. So I began to think of what a school would look like if I ran the school. So here is my Utopian School Story. If I ran the school so many things would change, but so many things would stay ...