mastery in a variety of modes, not just the one that fits his or her unique
learning style. Employers care little about learning styles: They want all
workers to produce according to the guidelines of the company, not the
styles of the employees.- While life experiences, etc., do demonstrate that students are having
success in areas they need, they do not really relate to the academic
objectives of the City and State. - Alternative Assessment is unfair to students who still have to face the
traditional assessments of the Regents and SATs, where everything is
Verbal and Mathematical. Only when these tests are altered to include
alternative assessments and multiple intelligences, should the teacher
do so in the classroom.
Perhaps the question we as professional educators must ask ourselves is:
How can we evaluate student performance so that individual learning styles
are respected while at the same time teaching mandated curriculum and pre-
paring students for standardized examinations? There are no easy answers.
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