At this point in time, many educational reforms treat teachers as technicians that strive to have their students master required content. Standardization is becoming the norm in education, and therefore more control is given to the people who design the test rather than giving the teacher the power to control what they feel is the right thing to teach. With standardized testing, test makers want to see that students are achieving necessary goals by excelling on the test, but not everything in life can be learned by being test savy. When teachers think critically about what they want to teach their students, they realize that schools need to be a place of positive thought where students enjoy learning things that will be useful to them in the
At this point in time, many educational reforms treat teachers as technicians that strive to have their students master required content. Standardization is becoming the norm in education, and therefore more control is given to the people who design the test rather than giving the teacher the power to control what they feel is the right thing to teach. With standardized testing, test makers want to see that students are achieving necessary goals by excelling on the test, but not everything in life can be learned by being test savy. When teachers think critically about what they want to teach their students, they realize that schools need to be a place of positive thought where students enjoy learning things that will be useful to them in the