Chapter+3

What do you think about the goal of "college readiness"? Is this the best available premise for a high school education? Why?

 * || I think our job as educators is to prepare our students for life and provide them with the tools to succeed.

I believe all teachers need to help prepare out students for the college level- as an English or literature teacher, we want to ensure our students are well prepared to enter college and be able to write a well-developed essay or understand key concepts in the books, poems, stories they are reading.

All of our students goals, dreams, and aspirations should be nutured inside and outside the classroom. The ultimate goal of teaching should not only be our students'college readiness, but our students' life readiness as well.

"College Readiness" seems like a very vague and generalized term. What kind of college should our teachers prepare them for? A technical college? A theological University? A business oriented college? The typical American campus lifestyle?

I think that while teaching students to be ready for college is important, it is important that in our schools and classrooms we acknowledge that not every student is college bound and think about those students when we prepare our lessons and curriculum. It is also important to not make these students feel as if they are the "other" from college-bound students but include them in normal classroom practices. ||