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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (116588)7/26/2009 12:04:05 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 542254
 
I do.

It's not perfect, nothing is, but compared to the subjective methods that could be used, it's pretty good. Students really need the concrete basic skills and facts these tests measure. I have championed "teaching to the test", because what is on the test is in our standards- this is good stuff. Children should be able to define words, and answer a test question aimed at comprehension. They SHOULD be able to do simple standard operations in math. If they can't, and they are of normal intelligence (which almost all our students are) then someone has failed to teach them.

"Teaching to the test" does not mean you just do test questions over and over. It means you should focus on the very important material deemed, in our content standards, to be vital for our students success in college and the work force. I don't mind that kind of guidance, and in fact I welcome it. There is so much I could be teaching, I am glad someone said "This is what we find most important, and this is what we will test on." That doesn't mean I don't provide tons of enrichment, I do. And I'm very creative about how I teach things. I would argue that very few of my students forget my "Your mama" joke lesson about hyperbole- and that's tested on our STAR tests :-)
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