Sentences with phrase «stop teaching to the test»

Time for Action: Stop Teaching to the Test and Start Teaching Skills By Scott D. Wurdinger, Available at amazon.com

In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn.»

In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn.

Not exact matches

«It's time the government stopped blaming parents and accepted the case we've been making for a new focus on teaching reading using tried and tested methods, with a test after two years in primary school to ensure our children are being taught properly.»

Those working with test design must stop patronizing our students in the name of an erroneous conception of fairness and construct rigorous exams that will send clear signals to educators about what they should teach.

«We need to stop focusing on test scores, blaming teachers and parents, and start teaching kids how to love and care for each other.»

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

This is ludicrous but if it was true we could stop spending money to try to teach students that fail tests when they have an effective teacher.

For Bloomfield, New London and Windham, three towns whose children face some of the greatest educational challenges, including poverty and language barriers, the decision was simply to stop teaching and keep testing from March till the end of the year.

Stopping the Sats tests in secondary school will have won support within teaching, without losing credibility with parents - and ministers will hope that they can start to sound more positive.

But starting in just over a month, every public school in Connecticut will be forced to stop teaching and start giving the Common Core Smarter Balanced Consortium SBAC test.

«If we want to have top notch people entering the profession of teaching, we have to stop making teacher's the scapegoat with high - stakes testing.

The teachers had stopped teaching science and English and started teaching them how to pass the test.

Remember that learning to drive doesn't stop at passing your test, RED instructors will happily teach you to drive on a motorway, at night and in poor weather conditions.

The Ten Practices, tested on thousands of couples, teach you to communicate with your partner, to stop conflicts, and create more love and vitality.