Quit Using “Alignment” Referring to Children and Tests!
Alignment refers to a car’s wheels pointing in the right direction, or an orthodontist correcting a child or adult’s dental occlusion. Alignment is rigid. It’s right or wrong. Yet alignment has been used for years to describe how students learn in school.
Children are not machine parts that need adjustment.
What if consideration was given to the student instead of the test, if teachers could work with parents to determine student objectives? What would we find? What ideas and knowledge goes unnoticed when children are matched to specific canned standards that come to schools from outsiders?
Children have different needs, strengths, and weaknesses. They think differently. They learn differently. They face different personal hurdles when it comes to learning. Even students who correctly align their answers to tests could have special talents or interests that go unnoticed.
Alignment leads to technology without teachers.
Alignment is mechanistic. Aligning a student’s learning to standards leads to placing CONTINUE READING: Quit Using “Alignment” Referring to Children and Tests!
