That's nothing but bureaucratic BS. The content and intent is obvious to anyone with a clue. |
Sounds like you've never taught. |
Actually, I have taught. You on the other hand sound like someone who either isn't a master at the content itself, or who doesn't have her teaching priorities together. |
Great. Where have you taught, when, what grade, what subject? |
| ^ And, to add to that, I have a background in engineering, I taught many advanced STEM courses, and have a lot of specialized training and experience in exam development, assessment and psychometry. |
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but probably not public school, tested grade.
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LOL! Yeah, all bets on common sense and fundamentals are off when you get to public school. |
So you've never taught in a public school, and probably never had to use standards, and you've never taught in a tested grade, so you don't know what you're talking about. Glad we got that settled. |
No, it's not that. There is just some institutional resistance to this type of thing at first. Most of the teachers are very receptive once there is a response from students and parents. There's nothing wrong with this. Our relationship is not adversarial--but there is a give and take about what is working and what isn't. That's what makes a good school great. |
What makes you think the WTU gives a toss about this? It allows teachers to clock in each day spend most of the day teaching to the students that are easy to teach to anyway then tell the rest to go off and work in "groups" and send the majority home with the instruction to "search the internet for the answers to the mysterious study guide hand out". It's very frustrating. |
Oh, I didn't realize that the WTU was now responsible for evaluations. When did that change happen? |
Is this what's going on at Deal? |
| No that is not what is happening at Deal. |
You are responding to someone else - I never taught at DCPS, I'm not originally from DC - but where I taught there were indeed standards and a far higher level of achievement and expectations and far better results from the students than anything DCPS is getting in most of its schools. I do indeed know what I'm talking about. |
Oh Gosh. Come work at DCPS. You could probably turn the whole school system around in one month! |