#'here's a 30-minute powerpoint we're required by the state to show you about equity and diversity lol. and a pamphlet. anyways.'
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man there’s like. almost nothing better than closing a dense 400-page textbook for the last time and knowing you’ll never have to open it for a grade again. the relief is staggering
#yeah I'll probably have to reference a lot of these once I'm fully working but I'm not getting graded on that#anyways anxiety about tests is baked into the american school system on purpose it's literally meant to benefit white middle class students#grades and tests are tools for measuring teachers' efficacy because in the grand scheme of things it would be very hard to gather data#otherwise but the focus on them over all else is Bad. it's nice that there's been a shift away from that towards interest-based#problem-driven project learning (not just 'doing group projects' but real projects of interest with multiple means of representation)#but there are still issues with objectivity and also just plain implementation that won't be addressed without a stronger unified push#I'm a little pessimistic because you'd think the revised 2019 standards would improve things but nooo teachers just don't read updates#and are very slow to change habits but man it would be possible if schools actually did REAL professional development and not just#'here's a 30-minute powerpoint we're required by the state to show you about equity and diversity lol. and a pamphlet. anyways.'#I have work in 3.5 hours goodnight
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