Sentences with phrase «assessments skills instead»

Let's invest in developing teachers» assessments skills instead of spending millions of dollars on tests that do not tell us anything new about our children.

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Instead, we are treated to empathetic descriptions of «legions of genuinely good teachers both touching lives and successfully teaching skills and content in hundreds of middle schools» and hear the complaint that «most of the mandated assessments being used to determine students» attainment of the standards focus heavily on recall of facts, one of the lowest forms of thinking.»

Teachers instead should use low - stakes formative assessments to assess students» content knowledge and skills.

They effectively get rid of high - stakes tests for assessments, instead introducing «just - in - time» assessments in each skill and knowledge area.

Instead, assessment is embedded in daily classroom activities, in which teachers use formal and informal assessment tools to ascertain if children are improving their literacy skills and knowledge, mastering the curriculum, and meeting community standards of literacy development.

Instead, Massachusetts delays its basic skills assessment until teacher candidates are ready to apply for licensure.

Educators should reject test - based reform and focus instead on formative assessment practices that encourage skilled teaching and higher - level learning.

Your analytical skills are more likely to be extensively assessed via an assessment centre exercise (see below) rather than via an interview question because this is the type of skill that is easier for a recruiter to judge when a candidate is actually demonstrating it instead of just talking about it.