Early on in this teaching adventure I called son1 to extoll the many virtues of the format of the results from a standardized test that the children took before I started. So informative! Such a useful metric!
Now, not so very far into the future, I see why they are so unpopular in the press and amongst teachers. In the short time since my start date, we’ve spent four school days testing, and I’ve spent a couple of hours after school at faculty meetings getting trained so that I can administer those tests. Tomorrow is another test, and in a few weeks will be the Big One (two days).
At this point, I’m not learning much new information from the results because I spend enough time with the students to see what their needs are. I’d rather just spend that time….teaching.
so… what you’re saying is taht kids should only be subjected to standardized testing right before their teachers go off the deep end and quit?
speaking of which, what ever happened to the previous teacher in your position which caused you to be hired in the middle of the school year?