Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
DC Public and Public Charter Schools
Reply to "Do charters "teach to the test""
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly does "teaching to the test" look like?[/quote] It means spending more time teaching kids how to answer questions related to passage than actually reading books and discussing them. It means teaching kids the algorithms and tricks versus building deep conceptual understanding in math. It means drilling kids over and over on the problem types and test language versus teaching them how to be critical thinkers. You see lots of packets of problems and drills. You hear chants of mnemonics. You see kids all solving math problems the same exact way. [/quote] Yuck. Not at a charter, but no, our DCPS does not teach that way -- not even remotely. I can only imagine the uproar if they did!! [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
