Sentences with phrase «teaching test prep»

He began by writing the odd resume here and there, but he has since developed a business for writing resumes and teaching test prep (ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT and LSAT) as well as writing test prep books.

After scoring a 760 on his GMAT exam, he spent a couple of years teaching test prep courses for Manhattan GMAT.

Not exact matches

They spend millions prepping their kids for SAT tests, honing their athletic skills, and teaching them to carry a tune....

Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.

You don't have to entirely halt your teaching to tackle standardized tests — a few simple strategies, combined with solid teaching, can result in some bang - for - your - buck test prep without sacrificing classroom time.

There isnt good research on this topic, but I do nt believe that any school that can be considered a test - prep factory will ever have test scores as high as schools that teach a solid, interesting curriculum tied to a set of high standards.

And I didn't foresee that test - based accountability would fundamentally corrupt the notion of good teaching, to the point where many people can't see the difference between test prep and good instruction.

Increasingly, new teachers have been taught not only that they should engage in test prep — even forms of test prep that clearly produce bogus gains — but that doing so is good instruction.

This provides an indirect test of the extent of teaching to the test, as gains due to crude test - prep strategies are less likely to persist over time than gains produced by improved instruction.

Maybe Not as Much as We Think (Education Week) Ph.D. candidate Cynthia Pollard cited as expert on test prep and teaching.

And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and test prep and reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number of As your student returns with on one test or another.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» because test scores are typically part of their selection process and a handful of them rely solely on such scores, they tailor their curricula and teaching to high - performing, high - potential kids who want a high school experience that emphasizes college - prep, or college - level, academics.

We also think this will largely address concerns about excessive «teaching to the test» — research suggests that for well - designed assessments, excessive test prep is actually counterproductive while a rigorous curriculum that prioritizes critical thinking is likelier to lead to better student results.

Many parents have encountered this — large amounts of teaching time lost to test prep that is boring, or worse.

Better teaching of content will raise scores on a good test, of course — but not nearly as fast as the bogus gains that can often be achieved by means of bad test prep.

In fact, having taught for decades it has become abundantly clear that the teachers who increase test scores may have unethical access to the tests themselves and have the ability to coach and prep their kids.

Strategies for cheating can include altering students» answer sheets, giving students the answers, or obtaining copies of an exam before the test date and literally «teaching the test» — prepping students with answers to actual test questions.

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

teach to the test, coach, prep, etc...), in many cases test scores can vary simply because of the placement of students.

Seems to me that this is also further evidence that teaching with just short test prep passages is a disservice and will come back to haunt us.

Think of the various educational crimes charter schools are often accused of: not serving an equitable percentage of vulnerable populations over zealous test prep, counseling students out, unrealistic demands of parents, and teaching to the tests.

Between test - prep (which he does not count as teaching) and various other duties, nearly half of every day is spent on tasks other than educating students, he observed.

Just because kids are poor, doesn't mean they aren't smart and these brightest children are bored out of their minds by the non-stop test prep that serves «data - driven instruction» but fails to actually teach smart kids anything.

I've read statements that real teachers are doing good teaching, not test prep, which is disingenuous.

A Milwaukee teacher very committed to social justice teaching recently told me that even she is having a hard time finding the time and space to incorporate meaningful and critical lessons into her teaching because so much of the time is spent on test prep.

Due to standardized tests, and the prep that comes with them, my son who is in Kindergarten this year is likely to lose at least the equivalent of a full year of face to face teaching and learning time with his teachers by the time he completes his k - 12 public education.

Mark my words... mayoral control is the first step towards privatization, profiteering, union busting, deprofessionalizing teaching, creating at - will employees and a constant churn of newbie test prep drones.

Other Canadian schools have found that poetry — which is often among the first casualties of test prep — is a documented best practice not only for teaching literacy but also for helping students develop critical thinking and analytical perspectives (Hughes, 2007).

Teaching is not an exact science, which the reformers like to promote because they can then replace the expensive teachers with TFA scabs and short term Stepford test prep drones.

Unfortunately, there's very little research on test prep and its effect on teaching quality.

That means that there is more time for test prep each year which means more testing prep materials will be bought, more specialists hired from companies to tell teachers how to teach to test...

Despite the innovative technology, the teaching had not changed — the devices were simply being used as sophisticated test prep tools.

None of the private prep schools, which specialize in preparing students for college, teach or test the Common Core.

My colleague who teaches English learners said she used to complete five of her own units with these students — and now she can only complete one due to constant test prep and testing.

More surprising, the researchers found that the quality gap between a teacher's regular lessons and her test - prep lessons was largest in a school district where the teaching quality was the highest.

There is no NAEP test prep industry, or high - stakes consequence that promotes teaching to the test.

This is my first full year teaching at OHDELA but I did get to work with some awesome students in the spring as a test prep tutor.

«I used to spend time on test prep because I felt pressured to do it,» said Yi, who attended Hobart in Koreatown herself and returned a decade ago to teach.

Without tenure schools will turn into instant test prep factories supported by young cheap teachers who come out of these new test prep college teaching training programs.

The report does not actually contain items that specifically mention «drill,» work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics,» or «taught to the test,» but I believe the reporters (and perhaps Gates officials) are referencing the test prep items with these phrases.

How horrified she would be by the thinking that reduces teaching to test - prep drill and professional practice to a numerical score.

Multinational testing corporations, publishing companies, ed - tech ventures rushed in with their wares: software for administering tests, test preps, pre-tests, post-tests, tests scoring, lesson plans, teaching modules, assessment devices; entire new industries sprang into being.

This pressure forces otherwise well - meaning school officials to throw out what they know about teaching and learning and replace it with test prep.

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.

As Koretz points out, schools that serve low - income students are the most likely to be engaging in test prep — including trying to teach reading comprehension skills divorced from content.

These high - quality schools in New York and Boston generally do not focus on teaching to the test; indeed, many are struggling to avoid being coerced into becoming test - prep programs.

When we talk about our profession in these ways we play right into the reformer's game plan, which is to degrade and dehumanize the teaching force as mere delivery systems for test prep materials and canned curricula.

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.

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