Sentences with phrase «teaching tests»

The problem is that many school leaders think this is a leap of faith and continue to respond to test score pressure by having teachers teach the test.

All too often we find ourselves reviewing data, teaching test taking skills, reviewing the latest assessment to ensure our students have the knowledge they need to score well.

Recently, a veteran teacher told me that she was tired of teaching testing.

To address that issue, teacher academies aim to give students with an early interest in teaching a test - drive that can help them decide if teaching is a good fit.

So school leaders are only going to move away from teaching the test if they're convinced there's a better approach.

The tests are graded internally by schools, often by the very teachers who taught the test - taking students.

To be certified, applicants must also pass the required teaching tests, be at least 18 years old, and undergo a criminal records check.

The last step in obtaining an elementary teacher certification is to take the state teaching test.

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

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

The efficacy of an interactive hypermedia program for teaching a test - taking strategy to students with high incidence disabilities.

comparative religions type of courses used to be common, before today's teach the test mentality and the effort to dumb down the population.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

CEL consultants taught test - taking skills along with literacy skills and achievement scores began edging up.

Since 1998, the federal government has attempted to increase the accountability for preparation programs by requiring states to collect and report information about the programs, including completion rates, average scores on state and national teaching tests, and the number of student teaching hours required.

The elementary teacher described a horrible abusive working condition where uncertified co-teachers often taught test prep and where there was little support from the administration for teachers and nearly zero interaction with Canada, despite his nearly half a million dollar a year salary.

If an exam effectively gauges a student's mastery of U.S. history or English grammar, then teaching the test is simply a matter of helping students develop that knowledge.

These activities do demand a level of intellectual engagement more deeply than is the case with standardized teaching tests, such as PRAXIS.

Spread the word and help teach the test.

We did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of whom send their children to private schools where this nonsense does not apply, appear to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.

A study, published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching tested the effects of an integrated science and literacy approach in 94 fourth - grade (Year 5) classrooms in one US Southern state.

Mentored new QA employees, and taught Testing Methodologies.

In some states, teachers who do not teach tested subjects are having their evaluations based in part on the way their students perform in the tested subjects they don't teach (a beautiful critique of that idiotic idea here).

If the English language arts teacher teaches lessons that match the test, that teacher is teaching test prep — not literacy.

Test preparation would focus on the content of the tests, rather than continue the fruitless attempt to teach test taking.

Despite that, parents are as frustrated as ever, teachers are tired of «teaching the test» and too many students are still...

Earlier this month, Carvalho tweeted: «And for all the teachers in America: Testing is not teaching Testing is not teaching Testing is not teaching Testing is not teaching Testing is not teaching.»

When faculty, students, and parents know that they are valued, achieving a shared vision becomes everyone's shared responsibility — not to teach testing, but to help every student achieve success in learning.

The review also found that the practice encourages a «teaching the test» approach at the cost of wider subject knowledge and that more than # 3.3 million was spent by schools on early entry in the last academic year.

From the survey data we estimated that in 1994 teachers were spending an average of about 10.5 hours a year on test preparation activities such as giving practice tests and teaching test - taking strategies.

Many public schools are stuck in this «teach the test» model because of the mandate to raise test scores.

«We're really being pressured to teach test - taking skills rather than higher - level thinking.

A candidate for the Class A five - year educator license must complete and pass the Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching Test and Praxis II Specialty Area Test appropriate to his or her degree program.

These harsh punishments lead some districts to «teach the test» and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning.

Over 40 % of the students I teach tested below the 3rd grade level in my subject on their MAP tests at the beginning of the school year.

Educators do have to teach the test, especially in light of standardized testing and other mandatory assessments.

In addition, those who are completing the EYE requirements to upgrade from a Level 1 to a Level 2 teaching license are often required to pass at least one of the Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching tests.

Praxis II: Principles of Learning & Teaching Test (specific to area of certification)-- taken at the end of the residency year

Actual time for test - taking and test preparation, which just includes giving practice tests and teaching test - taking strategies:

In South Carolina, teachers must pass the Praxis II: Principles of Learning and Teaching test for their grade level and the Praxis II: Subjects Assessments / Specialty Area Tests that are required for their specialty areas.

First, they contend that these exams detract from the larger goals of education by encouraging teachers to «teach the test.»

In a certain sense, however, teaching the test is the whole point.

However, since I taught the tested grade, I quickly learned that many of our practices would revolve around a multiple - choice assessment.

Inflated Test Score Gains: Is the Problem Old Norms or Teaching the Test.

Even though they taught the test subjects how to operate the devices before running the actual testing, I think it's a bit absurd to think that a reader would adjust that quickly to using something new.

These rankings only track whether or not children are «taught the test.»