This is our educational system in Lebanon.This drawing represents the real condition of some educator's mentalities about examination and evaluation.It represents the unfair condition that the learners are passing .We as teachers we should always remember that students have different abilities , different ways in studying , different learning experiences , different and multilpe intelligances , different levels of proficiency , different strengths in domains:cognitive, effective , psychomotor and linguistics.I know that the exam should be one and unified but it should be valid and reliable in order to have valied and reliable results .A fish can't climb a tree with her strange characteristics :small and aquatic.An elephant is too big but can't climb but the bird is so small and can easly fly to touch the top of the tree and to the target.The same way the student are also different and each student is brilliant in one domain or talented in a skill and here is the skillfullness of the teacher is to discover this and nurture it to grow and have independent and a brilliant generation.No student is stupid be sure of this the innovation and credibility are there within them we as teachers we must know our job where isit.
Very true Nadia that our educational system and some teachers tend to craft exams that don't take into consideration the different abilities and levels of students as well as their backgrounds. If the teacher don't take into consideration these aspects then she is not being fair to all students and she is not meeting their own needs and that would lead to their failure and demotivates them, thinking that they are stupid students whereas each one of them is intelligent in a specific domain. Thus our educational system must be changed and improved to cope with all types of students.
ReplyDelete