Sentences with phrase «preparing for tests because»

For instance, when students stopped preparing for tests because they knew they could redo them, the teachers started requiring students to show evidence of preparation and write a study plan to qualify for the redo.

Not exact matches

It's certainly a difficult situation for China because their preference would be for North Korea to cool down and stop testing missiles and enter into some kind of negotiation track with the US, but it just doesn't appear that the North Koreans are prepared to do that.

Sit up and take notes, because believe me, you'll want to feel prepared for the test that comes later.

I never thought oversupply would test me, but I'm glad it did because it has helped prepare me for all the other things that inevitably were going to trip me up as a parent.

When my husband returned on the third day, I was wearing one of his shirts because mine were all in the washer, the floor was covered in toys and burp cloths, the dishes weren't washed, there was no grown - up food in the house, and I hadn't showered in two days, but I had survived my first real test as a parent of multiples and while I was sure it wasn't the last trial I'd face, I'd learned a lot to prepare me for the next one.

Mostly, he was just ready to be done with high school, and also, because it was like a major bonus when he realized he could bypass the ACT and SAT, and build his video portfolio instead of preparing for a test.

There was a false sense of control that just because I had wanted it and prepared for it (natural child birth, successful breastfeeding, bonding time with baby, soothing the baby easily, predictable napping and eating schedules, etc.), I could achieve it, the same way I had studied for a test and got an «A» or reduced my calories and lost weight.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

Because it is true in education that what gets tested gets taught, ATC21S is preparing for the international hand - wringing from low - ranked countries by offering videos of classrooms where the researchers say teachers and students are getting it right.

I thought I'd come prepared — after all, I'm here only for BRCA testing, and only because of my ancestry — but it turns out I haven't.

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

I explain to them — in complete seriousness, of course — that this will be the hardest test of the entire year because they have not prepared in class for the test.

The sweet spot for Rosetta Stone Korea is in serving students who are in Grades 1 to 4 because they are young enough that the parents are less focused on how the language learning will prepare students for the suneung, or the College Scholastic Aptitude Test.

When these experiences are diminished because they get in the way of preparing for externally imposed tests, then we know something is very wrong.

Also, because Civilization III teaches the underlying principles behind history, rather than names and dates, it didn't do much to help teachers prepare students for testing.

Because of the vast amount of information that needs to be covered and the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

He prepares students for tests, he said, because it is part of his job.

Testing experts suggest that this intense emphasis on test preparation is wasted, because students tend to learn test - taking techniques rather than the subject tested, and they are not likely to do well on a different test of the same subject for which they were not prepared.

Proponents of the current school reform agenda claim that because the US ranks at the middle of the pack on international tests, that somehow proves that US students are not prepared for the world or that they will be less economically competitive and cause economic doom for the country.

These unions say the tests are bad for children's education - because teachers spend so much time preparing for the tests that it squeezes out other lessons.

Teachers and principals at Success said that they prepare their students so intensely for the tests because of the opportunities that high scores can present, such as invitations to top public middle or high schools, or scholarships for private schools.

Because of the high stakes of the SBAC tests, English teachers, especially in schools with a history of low standardized test scores,, prepare students for the test by adhering to the pedagogy prescribed by the Common Core.

Back to the Twitter conversation... One educator * noted that he hears students specifically ask for traditional schooling, because they feel it better prepares them for high school, testing, and for college.

Some district administrators have said that elementary school teachers don't have time to provide the required 200 minutes of physical education every 10 days because students need every minute of classroom instruction to prepare for standardized tests.

Because changing the test is very likely to lead to changes in value - added for some teachers, states may want to prepare: they may want to thoroughly investigate how value - added changes from the years before the Common Core test to the first years after it.

When school leaders say they test because they «want all kids to show up the first day prepared to learn,» Roemer said, «that's code for, «We want to set up obstacles so kids who are harder to teach don't come to our school.»»

If, on the other hand, these new tests cover different information, then they are a complete waste of time and money because the Vallas administration never told teachers what was on the tests so that they, in turn, have never had the opportunity to help students prepare for them.

Doesn't sound too onerous, but that's only part of the story, because most of the abuses of the testing are with the constant practice testing by the schools and «benchmarking» of students to prepare for the tests, none of which is mandated by the accountability system, but that gets lost in the demagoguery.

Because there was no state - funded college entrance exam in spring 2016, Districts 203 and 204 picked up the cost of administering the ACT since their students had already been preparing for that test.

MINI fans should start preparing for summer because the new MINI Cabrio is almost here, as proved by a set of pictures showing the convertible almost camouflage - free during testing sessions.

Since the entire legal world judges you on your grades, you must study exclusively for the exam, even if this means reading additional materials, skimming assigned readings in order to buy time to do other forms of study, going against the advice of your professor, or taking some lumps in class because you are preparing for the test rather than to look good when you are called on.

This is one of the most difficult pre-employment personality tests to prepare for, primarily because it has not been proven valid for recruitment use.

To your question: If the questionnaire was prepared by me, only a minority of commissioned sales people of any stripe, managing brokers or otherwise, would pass the test, because the questions would be strategically worded to sift out the personality types that turn strictly on meeting sales targets as being the norm for creating a sense of achievement.