Also, sometimes teachers try to teach that way and fail miserably.
Like my genetics class: I did the experiments as well as I could and got a result different than what the teacher expected. This was marked as “wrong”. Yet… was it actually wrong? Perhaps I did the experiments wrong, I’m not sure. But if so, that should have been pointed out. I actually think the fruit flies just didn’t behave as neat little models but instead as complicated messy lifeforms, and as a result I got the “wrong” answer by being too close to reality.
I feel similarly about my high school general science class. The teacher tried to make it hands-on etc. by having us run experiments and do simple engineering within the theme of the current topic, but a. he rarely explained the prerequisites to the projects and b. he still treated them as “one right answer”, and you would receive a poor grade if your experiment had odd results or your project didn’t meet the standards.
Also, sometimes teachers try to teach that way and fail miserably.
Like my genetics class: I did the experiments as well as I could and got a result different than what the teacher expected. This was marked as “wrong”. Yet… was it actually wrong? Perhaps I did the experiments wrong, I’m not sure. But if so, that should have been pointed out. I actually think the fruit flies just didn’t behave as neat little models but instead as complicated messy lifeforms, and as a result I got the “wrong” answer by being too close to reality.
I feel similarly about my high school general science class. The teacher tried to make it hands-on etc. by having us run experiments and do simple engineering within the theme of the current topic, but a. he rarely explained the prerequisites to the projects and b. he still treated them as “one right answer”, and you would receive a poor grade if your experiment had odd results or your project didn’t meet the standards.