Throughout all of elementary and high school I’d say that the Tyler theory was present, and now knowing what it is was very prominent. Teachers often had been saying how they had to hit all these topics and fit tests in by certain dates so that we could “meet curriculum”. This was all throughout even including some teachers cutting out minor “not as important points” because they were running low on time. Many of the benchmarks for our comprehension were done through tests, especially in the more core classes. They also had the same expectations for every student regardless of every student’s difference and needs.

Tylers rationale limits a lot of what students can do to grow and learn at their own pace. It also doesn’t help teachers to be able to teach the students at a rate that they’ll learn at as they need to always be keeping up with the curriculum and what needs to be done by when to meet every topic. Tylers plan does have some useful aspects as it does try to improve on what past models looked like and was a step in the right direction, however that was years ago and as of today more modern steps could be taken to help education not be living in the past.