The Educational Leadership article did a very nice thing for me. It gave me the opportunity to blog about an article that didn't inherently irritate me.
The idea of creating a problem based learning exercise in order to increase student test scores in a school is a work of sheer genius. Not only does it have the desired effect of increased test scores; it also accomplishes what I consider to be the ultimate goal of teaching: giving students the opportunity to take responsibility for their own education. In creating their own strategies for improving their scores, these students have set the stage for a successful continuing education. Those of us who move beyond the classroom into the real world realize that education is a continuous process; those who want education to end when high school (or even college) ends are setting themselves up for failure. The high school or college degree doesn't mean that one's education is complete, it merely means that the student is at a point where he can begin to teach himself.
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