The Innovative Educator: 20 Things a Teacher Wants the Nation to Know About Education

The Innovative Educator: 20 Things a Teacher Wants the Nation to Know About Education:

20 Things a Teacher Wants the Nation to Know About Education

by lnielsen.professional@gmail.com (The Innovative Educator)

In response to my post 20 Things Students Want the Nation to Know About Education, Tom, who blogs at Stop Trying to Inspire Me. Just Shut Up and Let Me Teach wrote the 20 things teachers like him want the nation to know about education. Below are his points followed by my reaction.

1. If we're not going to get rid of standardized testing, we need better tests. We need to ditch multiple choice and make the focus on higher-level critical thinking. If that means that Pearson's evaluators spend more time grading the tests, then so be it. We give them so much money anyway they should start earning it.
• We don't need standardized tests and we don't need to hire people to grade assessments. Teachers are paid to do this work and they already have assessments available to them that are