Journal III
The topic I chose for my proposal is one that I always had feelings towards. This topic was one i did not even know existed until i moved here to Texas in 2009. Now without giving it away i wanted to ask, is there anything in high school that bothered you? No, I am not talking about bullies, grades, or even trying to fit in; but how about the teaching itself? Did it ever feel like the curriculum here in Texas challenged or expanded the knowledge one wanted? I did not think so. I thought the curriculum was a joke. They taught A, B, and maybe C if they had time, but what about the rest? I love learning new things, especially if they made me a better person. Throughout high school I was bored, and I blame this on the Texas way of "Teaching for the Test."
I lived in Illinois since the second grade. Learning there was fun. It was challenging and also very rewarding. When you left for the day, you brain ached from all the knowledge that was shoved into it that day; and the next day you were ready for more. There were still state test that we had to take. But the difference, between Illinois' way of teaching and Texas, was we learned A, B, C, and so on. Illinois could do this because they did not have the rigorous hand holding that Texas does. They had the idea that students should know "x" by the time your done teaching for the year, and how they got there was up to the teachers creative ability. That there is another point against "Teaching for the Test" but i will discuss that in my paper.
We talked a little bit about how to make the proposal more objective in class on Wednesday. Even though I agree with your opinion its important to remember that when we begin research we have to begin from an objective place so that are biases don't impact our findings. Much research has been done about the impact on standardized testing on student academic outcomes in Texas so you should be able to find good material. Shift the wording a bit and you'll be on the right track. :)
ReplyDeleteWow well i wish my head could ache of knowledge since it is true what you say. Here in Texas they teach you on what the test is mainly about instead of the test and interesting facts around it. I do wish school could have been more fun rather than just focus on how the scores of the test were going to result in. I am looking forward on reading your paper.
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