Obstacles educators face

Some obstacles that I think educators face when they try to change their way of teaching is the back lash from either parents and/or students. For example, in the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed”, there was a section where a parent was concerned about the different teaching approaches the teacher was using. She was concerned about how her child was going to be able to succeed in SAT test, getting into college and others aspects that would hinder her success in the future. Another example, was where students were having an open conversation with with their teacher and admin about his teaching methods. I remember one of the students said he needed to teach them how to ace the test instead of teaching real life challenges. And that high school was about teaching them to do well on the test and university/college was about teaching real life situations. I feel like students are taught not to learn but taught how to memorize, which can be very detrimental in the long run. That being said, learning to ace the test in math makes students want to memorize the steps to solve the math problems instead of conceptualizing the math problem. The problem with this is students won’t know how to think outside the box when it comes to questions that are more abstract which may need the student to creatively/critically think to solve the problem.

In our last class, I also really enjoyed learning about Sketch Notes. The data behind using sketch notes to take notes was very surprising to me, because I don’t do well taking notes that way. I tend to hyper focus on my drawings and then I miss out on the material (I guess that can be considered as a con). Some pros would be making the notes more precise and depending on the person it can be very beneficial by summarizing the content being delivered.