What are we doing to our students? The abuse of accountability
Abstract
This power point presentation will focus on the accountability nightmare our schools have been forced to comply with and is being played out daily despite a global pandemic. I investigate the damages associated with the one-size-fits-all curriculum implemented initially through the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002. Through the lenses of my past experiences as a Christian school principal and as an educator, I share with the reader impacts on Christian schools and its primary constituents, middle class families. I argue for schools to reexamine their priorities and develop a curriculum of caring which includes the importance of relationships and bonding between teachers and students. Within such a context, the student and teacher have a greater potential to learn from each other beginning at the kindergarten level. Students having opportunities to bond with teachers (e.g., Noddings, 2005) is at the core of such a curriculum where relationships and trust replace the current trend of teaching to the test. This presentation will identify possibilities and ideas moving forward beyond this critical time in our nation's history. The presentation concludes by addressing current inhibiting forces conflicting with implementing this child- centered format for learning.
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Location
Stream B
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Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Crosby, Michael, "What are we doing to our students? The abuse of accountability" (2021). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 35.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2021/2021/35
What are we doing to our students? The abuse of accountability
Stream B
This power point presentation will focus on the accountability nightmare our schools have been forced to comply with and is being played out daily despite a global pandemic. I investigate the damages associated with the one-size-fits-all curriculum implemented initially through the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002. Through the lenses of my past experiences as a Christian school principal and as an educator, I share with the reader impacts on Christian schools and its primary constituents, middle class families. I argue for schools to reexamine their priorities and develop a curriculum of caring which includes the importance of relationships and bonding between teachers and students. Within such a context, the student and teacher have a greater potential to learn from each other beginning at the kindergarten level. Students having opportunities to bond with teachers (e.g., Noddings, 2005) is at the core of such a curriculum where relationships and trust replace the current trend of teaching to the test. This presentation will identify possibilities and ideas moving forward beyond this critical time in our nation's history. The presentation concludes by addressing current inhibiting forces conflicting with implementing this child- centered format for learning.
