During Monday's lecture, two local school administrators, Leona Hoth and Adam Riley, came to discuss the decisions made by a school administration. They had interesting points of view on NCLB and standardized testings.
Leona Hoth said, "No Child Left Behind will take care of itself if we're doing our best in good education. If you help the child become the best they can be, they'll do fine on the test." This point of view was refreshing to hear. We talk so much about the negativity behind NCLB. Yet for these administrators, it's just another "piece of the pie." They just deal with it and make the best of it. When asked whether teachers should teach to meet the standards over teaching for enjoyment, Adam Riley said, "They should go together."
After re-evaluating the idea of NCLB, I think it is okay to say that it's good for these two kinds of teaching to go together. A good teacher should be teaching for enjoyment, yet there should be real teaching. Maybe NCLB is not the best way to measure learning, but perhaps it is good to have a measurement. Society likes to have bench marks, numbers, and goals. If a teacher is teaching in the best way he or she can, the goals should be met.
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I agree that it was refreshing to hear a positive view of NCLB. I'm worried that we are being trained to think that NCLB is very bad, and that we are going to have negitive attitudes about NCLB when we are teachers. Having a negitive attitude isn't going to make the situation any better. I also liked that Leona Hoth made NCLB sound like it wasn't a big deal, it was just a "piece of the pie." NCLB probably seems like a big issue to us because we haven't had to deal with it yet. But I think that we will easily be able to follow the NCLB rules in our classrooms (especially since we're going to be music teachers).
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