Before reading this chapter, I did not know much about the history of schooling. This chapter was very interesting. As they talked about the stages that education has gone through, I think we are getting to a combined stage, where we still have the formal education in a classroom, but we are also learning online and taking courses that interest us as individuals. I also think a lot more teachers are giving students choices as to what they may research so that it is something they are interested in and want to learn about compared to being forced to research a topic the student may have no interest in. Even with testing, in schools today you have the different types of assessments and then there are still standardized tests. I think schools are working hard to combine different types of ways to test student’s knowledge and also to keep students interested and teach them topics they are interested in.
As a teacher, I will try hard to keep my students interested and give them choices. If the students are working on a research paper, I want them to research something that interests them. No matter what they write about, they still have to do research and find information on their topic and they will get the writing experience. For a history class, you could have students research a time frame, but relate it to something they enjoy. Since I enjoy baking and cooking, maybe I would research foods during a certain time, how they cooked or if there were any movements towards different types of food.
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