How Do We Change Our Way Of Teaching?

After this week and reading all of work I can't help but wonder what we could do change our way of teaching to become more up to date.  All I can think about is how far behind students learning is.  It seems like such a simple idea, but it really is more complicated than it sounds.

How do we go about changing something that has been consisten for so long?  How can we call something consistent that's only been consistent because it's always inconsistent?  Just writing that sentence has confused me!!!  One person's idea of a proper education may be another's laughable attempt.  The reason I say this is because when we looked at schools like King Middle School and Big Picture Learning, then look at schools like where I went to high school....the comparison to me is embarrassing.  I thought my education was decent until I read about these schools.  Now I feel as though I was robbed of so much knowledge.

I may not have been though.  I may have had the best education that was available at the time period I was in high school.  Who am I kidding, though?  I wasn't even aware until my senior year that there are certain classes I should have taken to become accepted to a four year college instead of a two year college.  That step alone in my high school career cost me an extra year in college.  I had to start my education at a community college to complete entrance level courses just to become considered at a four year school!  I did what I had to though, and I guess it all worked out in the end.  I just hope that the students of today are more informed than I was.  I like to think they are getting a better education than I was.

Yes.....our readings this week brought this post out of me LOL.