Because we attempt to teach all children, it becomes more and more challenging for teachers to be adaptable, creative, and to find ways for students to acquire skills at self-management. That means that creative teachers have to work hard at making school a place that students perceive as enjoyable, where learning is fun. Because the first order of business for teachers is to gain student cooperation, we need to have interesting, engaging, and worthwhile activities for students to cooperate in. Societal changes also mean that we have to rethink our definitions of what classrooms are like, Evertson said. Too often our images of classrooms are those rooted in the 1940s, where the image of the teacher is to do the talking and the students to do the listening.
Students take tests and earn grades.
This is a pretty narrow view of the educational possibilities. These possibilities today with the advent of computers will be endless. We will soon find that more than one computer to a classroom is a necessity. We may have to sell the public on the necessity of providing funds for this. So I think we have to broaden our view of what schools can foster.