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The Test Scores Are In
A child is more than any one score.
And so is a teacher, too.
But when the scores surprise and please,
Loudly shout, "WOO - HOO!"
I celebrate the highest highs,
I celebrate every success.
Every score is a sign of learning;
Every score measures progress.
I know I taught, but did they learn?
The question haunts me less
Because I see the numbers there
And can measure my teaching with the tests.
A child is more than any one score.
And so is a teacher, too.
But when the scores surprise and please,
Loudly shout, "WOO - HOO!"
Round up this week is at Chicken Spaghetti.
The
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has issued a new report entitled
The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action. Here is an excerpt.
Current educational practice and policy focus overwhelmingly on academic achievement. This achievement, however, is but one element of student learning and development and only a part of any complete system of educational accountability.
Together, these elements support the development of a child who is healthy, knowledgeable, motivated, and engaged.
To develop the whole child requires that
Communities provide
- Family support and involvement.
- Government, civic, and business support and resources.
- Volunteers and advocates.
- Support for their districts’ coordinated school health councils or other collaborative structures.
Schools provide
- Challenging and engaging curriculum.
- Adequate professional development with collaborative planning time embedded within the school day.
- A safe, healthy, orderly, and trusting environment.
- High‐quality teachers and administrators.
- A climate that supports strong relationships between adults and students.
- Support for coordinated school health councils or other collaborative structures that are active in the school.
Teachers provide
- Evidence‐based assessment and instructional practices.
- Rich content and an engaging learning climate.
- Student and family connectedness.
- Effective classroom management.
- Modeling of healthy behaviors.
This report is all about changing the focus of our conversations to what is best for children, and recognizing that the continued emphasis solely on tests and test scores is not enough. Take just a few minutes to read this report. It's time for a change.
Go on to sleep now, third grader of mine.
The test is tomorrow but you'll do just fine.
It's reading and math. Forget all the rest.
You don't need to know what is not on the test.
Each box that you mark on each test that you take,
Remember your teachers. Their jobs are at stake.
Your score is their score, but don't get all stressed.
They'd never teach anything not on the test. ...
Thinking's
By: Camille,
on 4/11/2007
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School Library Journal: Extra Helping has an interview with Singer/Songwriter Tom Chapin. His song "Not on the Test" is hitting the target with parents, teachers and students.
My own entling's excursion into the world of Geometry has been interupted for several weeks as their geometry teachers reviews them on the ALGEBRA that they will be tested over on the TAKS next week. sigh.
What kind of reaction did you get from the song?
The feedback was just astonishing. I keep getting more and more [e-mails]. I had two today, from teachers saying, "Thank you! How can we get this song?" So we realized, it's not on a record and probably won't be for a while, so we decided to put it up on the Web site. And it's been roaring around the Internet from teacher to teacher and administrators and parents, and it's been fun to watch it in cyberspace.
TomChapin.com
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A listener inspired episode.
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Children’s books with strong female characters
Deirdre Flint’s Boob Fairy
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Just One More Book, Mostly News, Desperate Husbands
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The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully
Mirette and Bellini Cross Niagara Falls by Emily Arnold McCully
America Is her Name by Luis J. Rodriguez
Getting in the Game by Dawn Fitzgerald
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WOO-HOO to you, Mary Lee! Happy Summer!
A new goal:
No child left un-Woo-Hoo-ed!
Sam -- I'd like to hear that in a politician's stump speech!
Elaine -- Thanks! The happiness quotient of my summer certainly wasn't depending on good testing news, but it did push it up a notch or two!
WOO HOO! Happy summer to you!
Love the poem! Great one Mary Lee.
So tickled by this. Can you be my childrens' teacher???