On Monday, we began a short burst of tests from the Northwest Evaluation Association (better known as NWEA). This battery of assessments will give us some baseline information about where our students are starting. Get ready though, because our school district is returning to a schedule that includes even more assessments throughout the year. We tend to swing on a pendulum that empowers teachers at one end of the swing to a system that involves micromanagement on the other. We find ourselves on a trend that takes us away from the former and toward the latter. While that is not beneficial for teachers like me who thrive on independence and creativity, others are driven by all the data they can collect. I have probably written too much about why I think this is a detriment to our system and how it strips a classroom of personality and joy when it taken to an extreme, so I hope our current trajectory slows to a stop before we find ourselves in the same position we were in a decade ago. |
Parents should remember this: in my class, your child is not a number that can be adjusted with a computer program or with a scientific formula. Go back to some of my past articles, and you will quickly see that I understand that there are human beings sitting in the chairs in Room 404. A classroom should never be run like a factory assembly line, our products have hearts and emotions that should never be manipulated like machines, and you child is more than a test score to me.
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