Baldwin's Advice To Teachers

Conventional wisdom has it that teachers need to enforce the characteristics of open-mindedness and originality onto students. The standard way of thinking about the topic of Baldwin’s advice is that he wants teachers need to educate only the truth to their students for them to fabricate their own mindsets on concepts. Many people assume that modern teachers do not need to read and live by his ideas. It is often said that teachers need to read Baldwin’s text to refresh their memory on how to be a great teacher. My own view is that Baldwin’s advice to teachers is not relevant today because of new methods of testing and supportive and open-minded teachers.
New methods of testing have heavily increased in recent years prove that the advice from Baldwin is not needed. A brand new and difficult federal exam is the Common Core. The Common Core was created to prepare students for possible issues that they might face in their life and careers. The Common Core does this by having critical thinking questions, free response questions, and no multiple choice options. In addition, the Common Core advances students by …show more content…
In my AP English Language and Composition class, we are given texts to decide if we agree or disagree with the ideas that the writer is declaring. Additionally, I have been taught by my teacher to think critically on issues and to eventually come up with my own position on the issue. In my AP United States History class, we are taught the very detailed version of American history. Also, we analyze the different viewpoints that witnessed significant circumstances and events that occurred in America. Furthermore, with the information we are given we take stands on prompts that he presents to the class. Overall, teachers already encourage us to examine the material that they teach us so we can form a stand on the