Missouri Education Watchdog: Can Teachers Really Be Creative and Innovative when Teaching to the Test? Do They Really Have that Much Magic?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Can Teachers Really Be Creative and Innovative when Teaching to the Test? Do They Really Have that Much Magic?:

Can Teachers Really Be Creative and Innovative when Teaching to the Test? Do They Really Have that Much Magic?

by stlgretchen

The video of Ellie Rubenstein, a Highland Park School District (Lincoln Elementary School)  teacher who resigned because of the increased time taken on standardized testing, has created new debate on the role of teachers.  Rubenstein offers her statement on what it's like to teach today in the classroom.  From theDaily Mail:

The former teacher says: 'Raising students' test scores on standardized tests is now the only goal, and in order to achieve it the creativity, flexibility and spontaneity that create authentic learning environments have been eliminated.

'Everything I love about teaching is extinct,' she continued.

'...over the past 15 years, I've experienced the depressing, gradual downfall and misdirection of communication that has slowly eaten away at my love of teaching.