As a recently retired math teacher, I had to laugh at this recollection of your experience. Your points are very apropos and well taken. That said, we live in a new world and methods that worked well before are not adapting to change well. I would posit that the classrooms of innovative teachers are the ideal labs to test and refine the new methods to move education into the twenty-first century. The problem is teachers are given virtually no leeway to experiment, and certainly there is no cooperation or reflection on the results such innovators might discover.
As a recently retired math teacher, I had to laugh at this recollection of your experience. Your points are very apropos and well taken. That said, we live in a new world and methods that worked well before are not adapting to change well. I would posit that the classrooms of innovative teachers are the ideal labs to test and refine the new methods to move education into the twenty-first century. The problem is teachers are given virtually no leeway to experiment, and certainly there is no cooperation or reflection on the results such innovators might discover.