In many parts of the country, educators spend more time analyzing tests and figuring out how to prepare students for them, often by directly
teaching sample items from tests, than they do studying and understanding the standards.
Not exact matches
In recent months,
Teach Plus had over 1,000 teachers review
sample items from PARCC, one of the two testing consortia trying to create assessments aligned to the Common Core standards.
This includes general parent -
taught program information,
sample lesson plans, a list of required instructional topics, official logs and affidavit forms and a Texas Drivers Handbook, among other
items.
But then there's the, the final big
item is the, what we call a
sample teaching lesson.