Prior research in the primary and secondary grades in the US system of education has explored how prescriptive teaching practices influence teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of their workplace, with effectiveness defined as potential for addressing children's learning needs (e.g., Rosenholtz 1989), but there are no similar studies in US preschool education systems.
Based on the parents' reluctance against being tutored by the school, health promoters and schools should avoid prescriptive teaching to parents and instead use less hierarchical methods to inform parents.
Despite the Common Core's highly prescriptive teach-to-the-test model, education reformers, led by a "data-driven" rationale, have pulled out all the stops to ensure that teachers and principals buy into the multi-billion dollar curriculum.
"The changes are prescriptive in teaching what the structures are, but not perhaps in teaching students how to be active citizens," he says.
"If we are going to be prescriptive about teaching history, comparative religion, maths and English – and I wouldn't wish to sweep those things away – I don't see why we shouldn't be prescriptive about teaching the explanation for our existence". Although teaching evolution is not compulsory in primary schools, many already introduce some aspects in classes.
"As this report warns, being prescriptive about teaching methods for reading can alienate children from this process".
Schleicher hypothesized that some strategies the U.S. has for education, such as "a prescriptive program of teaching," work better in earlier grades.
"We no longer teach prescriptive interviewing as opposed to brute interrogation.
Some wanted me to use initiative and go where the greatest need for me was; others were more prescriptive, some wanted me teaching, while some used me as cleaner, washer, organiser, resourcer.
For example, participants were not prescriptive about who should teach about privilege and power, or "whiteness".
According to Dixon – who has just published a book on the subject entitled Testing Times – the cause was a "lost decade", in which Wales failed to upgrade its teaching or introduce prescriptive strategies for teaching such as those seen in Scotland or England.
