Sentences with phrase «curriculum tests alongside»
The endless national initiatives, an overloaded and prescriptive curriculum and the range of high stakes national curriculum tests alongside the pressures of school performance tables have led to many feeling under constant pressure.
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Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: «Primary schools are already under immense pressure from having to introduce an untried baseline assessment scheme this year alongside a new primary curriculum, and new tests at the end of key stage 2.
Today, the majority of ELLs study alongside their English - speaking peers, are held accountable to the same curriculum standards, and take the same high - stakes tests.
Alongside teachers, I am curious how continuing annual testing in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school reduces «the burden of testing on students and teachers, making sure that tests don't crowd out teaching and learning» and how the continued significance of student test scores (despite the law's important shift to include multiple measures of success for students) will alter a test - prep culture that narrows the curriculum.