Sentences with phrase «to teach to the test»
Over time, these requirements can create an environment in which teachers are pressured to «teach to the test» and it is difficult to maintain a creative approach to educating students.
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Starving schools that only have the most needy and difficult to teach, combined with awful «teach to the test» grading that judges a school by test scores and teachers instead of by each student's improvement is so wrong.
EDUCATION
It also contributes to a culture of «teaching to the test» that has already resulted in several large-scale public-school cheating scandals.
EDUCATION
«We're not teaching to the test, we're teaching to match the Common Core standards,» McComb High School principal Robert Lamkin said.
EDUCATION
Teachers only get to teach to the test, it is not what they want to do and not what they have trained for.
EDUCATION
The findings also refute the notion that teachers can boost test scores by «teaching to the test.»
EDUCATION
And he concludes with this simple truth: «If your school teaches to the test, it's not the test's fault.
EDUCATION
CAP outlines a series of recommendations for improving test procedures and moving away from teaching to the test and the culture of overtesting that is occurring in schools and districts across the country, including:
EDUCATION
He seems to think that lowering expectations will be more «relevant» to our students, and he uses popular mythology in attempting to make his case, such as «high stakes accountability drives dropouts» and «teaching to the test is taking away from learning», neither of which has any foundation.
EDUCATION
It forces teachers and schools to «teach to the test», and to neglect other important aspect of literacy and reading which help children to develop a love of reading and books.
EDUCATION
Standing among governors, teachers, superintendents and students in the White House's East Room Friday morning, President Barack Obama asserted his administration's reforms to the federal No Child Left Behind act would minimize the need for educators to «teach to the test.»
EDUCATION
We don't teach to the test, we teach to the child.
EDUCATION
Educators will help out with this as they too know very well (given over 30 years of experience and training) how to help «artificially inflate» their scores, thinking much of the time that test score boosting practices (e.g., teaching to the test, narrowing the curriculum to focus excessively on the tested content) are generally in students» best interests; but then...
EDUCATION
When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.
POLITICS
Readers will learn how to build an environment where letter and number grades are made obsolete by ongoing, meaningful narrative feedback; assignments that call for rote memorization are replaced by empowering, yearlong projects; and the need to teach to the test disappears because students learn standards through authentic experiences.
EDUCATION
The excessive testing has narrowed curricula as many teachers teach to the tests.
EDUCATION
Current approaches to testing and reporting, in fact, unwittingly cause impoverished, not rich and creative, «teaching to the test» items.
EDUCATION
· In neither study did high value-added teachers «teach to the test.»
EDUCATION
«I'm not talking about more tests,» he said «I'm not talking about teaching to the test.
EDUCATION
It is basically a handbook for teaching to the test.
EDUCATION
Who can forget Gov. Dannel P. Malloy «s repugnant words, «I'll settle for teaching to the test if it means raising test scores?»
EDUCATION
And here is what Jason Felch wrote in the LA Times: ««But the study found that teachers whose students said they «taught to the test» were, on average, lower performers on value-added measures than their peers, not higher.»
EDUCATION
Both Republicans and Democrats embrace the transparency of NCLB and the requirement to disaggregate data to show achievement gaps by race, income, English proficiency and disability, but they are concerned that NCLB is driving some educators to teach to the test instead of providing a well-rounded education.
EDUCATION
It's no wonder teachers feel pressure to teach to the test.»
EDUCATION
The arts, creative expression and culturally relevant learning experiences are being curtailed in efforts to «teach to the tests» which have themselves come under fire for poor construction, error and bias.
EDUCATION
In the work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students on a path to better lives or simply the result of charter schools» effectiveness in «teaching to the test» for the MCAS.
EDUCATION
The NUT's own survey * into the SLT tests showed that there was increasing evidence they were resulting in teaching to the test twice a year and generating a great deal of unwelcome bureaucracy and cost to the school.
POLITICS
The narrow scope of FCAT forces «teaching to the test» in Math and Reading and attaches a monetary value to every child who takes the test.
EDUCATION
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.»
EDUCATION
The second one is concerns about the way accountability pressures in the No Child Left Behind era created pressure to teach to the test, lots of sanctions and the loss of autonomy in the classroom because quite often in central-city schools, where minority teachers are concentrated, they were moved to a scripted, teacher-proof curriculum, geared to test preparation, which is not what people go into teaching for.
EDUCATION
A key point in the RAND report is that although TAAS scores did rise in Texas, it was because teachers teach to the test.
EDUCATION
While studies find a negative relationship between test preparation and instructional quality, some experts believe that concerns about teaching to the test may be exaggerated.
EDUCATION
«Our schools need to be accountable, but the current system stifles creativity, leads to «teaching to the test» and does not promote sustainable improvements in education,» she said.
EDUCATION
To avoid state sanctions for low performance on high-stakes tests, teaching to the test has become the norm.
EDUCATION
Description: Some standardized exams under the Common Core State Standards will continue to rely on multiple-choice questions, leading to concerns that rote memorization and «teaching to the test» will remain in classrooms.
EDUCATION
As Superintendent, I will replace the current testing system with common sense assessments in reading, writing, and math that will focus education on in-depth learning instead of teaching to a test.
EDUCATION
Determining educators» careers by their students» scores greatly intensifies incentives to narrow the curriculum and teach to the test (Guisbond, et al., 2012).
EDUCATION
When critics warn of the danger that teachers will «teach to the test,» proponents of high-stakes will generally reply that, well, if the test is designed to assess whether students have mastered important skills and bodies of knowledge, that's not obviously a bad thing.
EDUCATION
Despite the important role of play in the learning process, schools are allocating less time for free and open play in favor of activities that «teach to the test».
EDUCATION
And if you think Gerald Aungst teaches to a test, it's clear that you don't know him and you don't know this blog.
EDUCATION
Fine Arts have become an impossibility in schools where common core has taken over and teachers must spend hours «teaching to the test».
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Teachers are sick and tired of being constrained to teach to the test writes Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union.
EDUCATION
I want the teachers to have time to teach not teach to the test.
EDUCATION
Maureen — We are supposedly teaching to the tests, and we are doing it badly.
EDUCATION
The OECD warned in 2012 there was too much emphasis on GCSE results in English schools and this risked negative consequences including «gaming» and teaching to the test.
EDUCATION
They urged districts not to use that framework as the curriculum, but really — teaching to the test was never made so easy.
EDUCATION
This type of evaluation will lead to teachers teaching to a test.
EDUCATION
They aren't «teaching to the test,» but are teaching concepts at the rigor expected by these standards.
EDUCATION
«Hopefully he's learned something and he won't pursue this overstandardized testing, which basically leads to teaching to the test.
POLITICS
«And many schools will teach to the test so that early years education will become more narrow and formal.
EDUCATION