Sentences with phrase «still teaching to the test»

I've been doing this for a long time and despite current research, schools are still teaching to the test.

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They can «study» their religion, but it still comes down to faith in the teachings, and personal experience, neither of which can ever be meaningfully tested true or false in any kind of objective way.

Whether that means not participating in an organized religion but still studying its teachings, proposing a new mathematical theory to explain the origin of the universe that can't easily be tested experimentally, taking the notion of a personal God and trying to have an actual personal, and not a corporate, herd - instinct, everyone - else - is - doing - it, relationship?

Teachers can help ease student stress by emphasizing that tests are tools to identify future areas of instruction that can be addressed by the teacher, or «what the teacher may still need to teach (or re-teach).»

We need to be teaching the learning our students need today but unfortunately some are still teaching (and testing) for yesterday.

«I used to teach third grade, so I know the stresses of having tests and materials to cover but still wanting to get kids outdoors for these experiences.»

It's how far we still must go to unleash innovation and creativity in our classrooms, to break a culture of teaching to the test, and to equip our students for success in an economy fueled by inquiry and imagination.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

But in the leafy suburbs, where children come to Kindergarten with all manner of advantages, schools could teach yoga all day and their students would still probably ace the state tests.

He still teaches for tests as much as he needs to but doesn't let this overwhelm overall learning.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

A drop in proficiency rates on the new tests could mean that students are still getting used to the new test format, or that schools are still adjusting to teaching new material, or it could mean that states set higher cut points on the new tests than on their old ones.

Educators are concerned because so much is still unclear about the implementation of the tests, and whether the resources being created to align with the new standards will truly teach what students are meant to learn.

But while teachers aren't prepping students for tests, they are still teaching to the standards that they're required to learn.

«You want to find the right balance between being a really good teacher and still meeting those standards and not just teaching toward the test, really retaining that material and not just being taught, you know, testing strategies.

Unfortunately, even when we expand the set of publicly - funded education providers to include charter and private schools we still very often require that students attending those schools take the state test, designed to measure the teaching of state standards and curriculum.

Last year, she called for a moratorium on the testing tied to the new standards because state education officials and governors want to use test results to evaluate teachers, even though teaching materials and the new tests are still being developed.

It is still clinging to external testing for reading and maths and is introducing a new test for spelling, and while testing continues to be used to rank schools teachers will feel under pressure to teach to the test,» she said.

I understood that the formative assessment was timed to happen while I was still teaching the unit so that I could help students before the final unit test.

They went down because Common Core is dumbed down math, and NAEP still includes test items based on what we expected kids to be taught by / in grade 4 only 10 years ago.

They will still be required to have graduated from a teaching college and passed the Praxis exam, a national test for teachers entering the profession.

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

The state added that this still allows the individual to teach across other sciences without a specific subject test for each.

The Praxis II content test and teaching experience may still be used to add a field, as well as completion of an additional preparation program in the new field.

It still uses standardized test data to evaluate teacher performance, which will lead to more «teaching to the test.»

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

She also supported a move away from a modular approach to teaching and testing - saying that pupils could arrive at university still expecting to be «spoon fed».