I read the Kajder, book and loved many aspects of it. In the section the teacher named Kristen gave students a choice of what to read and present it to their class. However, we see that many kids had problems choosing on there own which is sad. I feel we suck students imaginations out by telling them how to do things and giving directions that we punish them when they do not follow directions that they eventually lose sight of choice. I see however that some kids do need the rubric yet some kids do better on a swing of the moment. We see students such as Leo that had problems with the testing and so do I this is because we all learn differently and we need to be able to continue to update the way we teach with the facts that come our way. We have known for decades that students learn differently and yet we have not changed our teaching style. I do not understand how we give the same test to every student, a student who is going to attend and Ivy League college to be a lawyer and a student who will be a mechanic do not need to know the same materials. These differences are needed to be able to have the world keep moving forward, we need doctors and mechanic s and janitors and baby sitters, these differences do not make one more valuable yet we expect them to be on the same testing level.
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