2¢ Worth. Listen A few weeks ago I worked and attended North Carolina's ISTE affiliate conference. I opened the NCTIES conference with a breakfast keynote address and Marc Prensky closed it with a luncheon keynote the next day. Sadly, I missed the second day of the conference. Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog. I was very moved by Susan Sluyter's letter in the March 23 Washington Post "My job is now about tests and data - not children.
I quit. " After teaching for 25 years, she sadly concludes: I have watched as my job requirements swung away from a focus on the children, their individual learning styles, emotional needs, and their individual families, interests and strengths to a focus on testing, assessing, and scoring young children, thereby ramping up the academic demands and pressures on them. Each year I have had less and less time to teach the children I love in the way I know best—and in the way child development experts recommend.
I reached the place last year where I began to feel I was part of a broken system that was causing damage to those very children I was there to serve.I’d describe our current period as a time of testing, data collection, competition and punishment. Browse Videos - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation. Always learning.