Finals week is HERE!!!

So! Finals are here! Studying seems to be irrelevant when it comes time to actually getting work done.... I know that as for myself, I tend to try and find any other thing to do EXCEPT study for that class that I am completely stressed out over.  Finals are the exemplification of trying to accurately grade everyone on the same material in the same way.  I know that it is supposedly the best way to grade everyone in the same playing field, but is it really? We all have different strengths and weaknesses based on our personality and how God made us. Some of us are better at depicting ideas through drawing, others through kinetic learning, others of us are oral learners while another person maybe good at just throwing up words onto a page like we must in a test.  WHY IS A TEST USING MULTIPLE CHOICE OR ESSAY DEEMED THE BEST WAY TO EXTRACT THE IDEA LEARNED IN CLASS?! To a lot of people, it really isn't fair.  The issue is our education system deems it necessary to attempt to use one device to reach all children.  The "bulls-eye shotgun" style as my educational psychology called it.  This basically means that we try and reach as many children as possible using one strategy. Every other child that does not fit into this "majority" is kind of other wise left out in the dust.  Even then, many teachers don't even attempt to find out how the majority of the class learns! They simply teach in the way that THEY know how to teach or learn! I struggle with lazy teaching like this simply for the fact, it is lazy and children are not being reached! The classes that I enjoyed and learned the most in where the classes that had a variety of ways to learn and respond to the learning.  I learn my information for a test in different ways for the same information.  If there is a part that I know is going to be multiple choice, I first learn the facts orally and by reading them out loud to myself multiple times. Then, I go back and test myself by having someone read out a question that I have constructed and then I must recite the answers.  If a part of a test is matching, I write out 2 sets of notecards. One with a word and another with the associated answer.  Then, I mix them up on the ground and put them together and then go back and judge how well I did.  This way, I am receiving the information in different ways.  I really only know these tricks though because my mom was a teacher and knows how to teach kids in ways each of them will understand.  If we want children of the future to succeed, we need to change the education system so as to reach every child. But, in association with film, here is a funny and entertaining video on how I feel a lot of kids study for finals.... :D