Imagine being in a room hearing the ticking of the clock above you this is it the big test that you have been studying for. You sit there thinking is the room too hot? Or too cold? That lights way to bright isn’t in? What if you don’t finish in time? Or worse, what if you fail? You hear the scratching of pencils on paper and you just seem to forget everything you have learned this past year, now you begin to feel sick. This is what many of the young test takers feel today, fear some of which causes the children to faint or even vomit. Does this seem like a great way for a child to want to go to school?
When we were growing up, some of frightful memories were a visit to the dentist or the first day of elementary school you finally enter the …show more content…
These tests were not a means of giving a state money or getting a teacher a bigger pay check. Teachers before these tests became so high risk paid little attention to these tests, which in turn had little impact on curriculum. The teachers actually taught to teach the children, not to teach the children how to answer a question. While in school one of my teachers who inspired me to teach taught me this saying about what we are doing to students now “I can teach a monkey how to take a test and fill in an answer, but what I cannot teach the monkey is how and why they got the answer.” This is why I believe that teachers and even parents are failing our children, they are not learning just regurgitating what we tell them is the answer. But there are some people who believe that Standardized testing holds teachers and schools accountable. They believe the greatest benefit of standardized tests are that the teachers and the schools are solely responsible for teaching the students. They are also responsible for what they are required to know for these standardized tests, which is not entirely true. This is primarily because these scores become public record, so teachers and schools who don’t perform up to par end up being scrutinized. This scrutiny can lead to teachers being fired and in even worse cases some schools being
When we were growing up, some of frightful memories were a visit to the dentist or the first day of elementary school you finally enter the …show more content…
These tests were not a means of giving a state money or getting a teacher a bigger pay check. Teachers before these tests became so high risk paid little attention to these tests, which in turn had little impact on curriculum. The teachers actually taught to teach the children, not to teach the children how to answer a question. While in school one of my teachers who inspired me to teach taught me this saying about what we are doing to students now “I can teach a monkey how to take a test and fill in an answer, but what I cannot teach the monkey is how and why they got the answer.” This is why I believe that teachers and even parents are failing our children, they are not learning just regurgitating what we tell them is the answer. But there are some people who believe that Standardized testing holds teachers and schools accountable. They believe the greatest benefit of standardized tests are that the teachers and the schools are solely responsible for teaching the students. They are also responsible for what they are required to know for these standardized tests, which is not entirely true. This is primarily because these scores become public record, so teachers and schools who don’t perform up to par end up being scrutinized. This scrutiny can lead to teachers being fired and in even worse cases some schools being