christine_han's blog

because really, as a new teacher, I feel like there are so many more important things to learn from each exhausting, frantic school day than "oh good, my students can do some basic addition problems in less than 3 minutes". I'm a first-year teacher at a school that prides itself on being child-centered, community-oriented, and anti-standardized testing, among many other things. I was lucky enough to student teach at the sister school of the school I'm at now and experience the growing pains (or the blunt force-from-the-outside pains) of a school trying to maintain its vision and not succumbing the pressures of churning out high test scores while also trying not to get "in trouble".