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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Not of this world

Marsha Richards from Sound Politics just posted about the official teaching standards for K-12 education in our state--yes, OUR state (Washington State for the geographically challenged). As much as we have begun to look like Florida in our election process, one wonders who's example we are following with these kind of standards:

According to our Superintendent of Public Instruction, a "below standard" teacher is one whose "students believe there are right and wrong answers to questions and work to determine what those are. [They] come up with immediate responses to questions and move quickly to the next task."

An "above standard" teacher is one whose "students know their ability to construct understanding and think reflectively about a problem is more valuable than correct answers."
Not in my world. I think the concept of critical thought is being *somewhat* skewed here. Anyone agree?

Richards includes a link to a Word file with the complete standards so be sure to check it out.

posted by Mark at 10:28 AM