Wednesday, October 13, 2010
10-13 post
I feel that it is our job as educators to make our curriculum meet our students' needs. To this extent, I really hate product based curriculum planning where the end product of the education is more important than the means through which it is achieved. The whole time I was reading about this, all I could think about was how much it felt like the way public schools teach to standardized tests. I think that it is absolutely crucial for us as educators to consider how our students are learning, not just what they are learning. As we discussed in class last week, every student is going to excel in different areas for different reasons, and if we are only concerned with their ability to repeat information at the end of a unit, we are not addressing those different strengths and weaknesses properly.
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Sarah-
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. I don't think it is appropriate or effective to teach students to pass a test. Product based curriculum planning just reinforces the idea that learning is more about passing tests than it is about acquiring information. I think this kind of curriculum is not helping our students in the classroom or preparing them for life in the real world where they will one day have to actually learn something in order to continue to be productive members of society.