While reading this chapter my only thought was how difficult
it would be to implement this teaching style into our schools. Eventually I
believe that our schools will recognize the value in different teaching
techniques and will become better, but until then it will be very difficult to
run against tradition. Because I always did well in school and testing came
easy to me, the idea of teaching and learning in any other way baffles me and I
am reluctant to even try it. I hope that as I become exposed to more students
and teachers I will realize the needs of a majority of students who need a new
system.
This reading also forced me to consider what we know and
think we know about adolescents. I am taking an adolescent psychology class and
the assigned textbook describes the common theme of deploring the wildness of
youth and the way they “throw out traditional morals.” I believe that both
texts show us that we tend to underestimate adolescents and assume that because
we are older we always know what is best, which is oftentimes mistaken.
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