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Um, maybe if you let me spend my time instructing and planning for effective instruction our results would be different?? But no, coordinating a standardized test is way more important.

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My child's elementary school in MCPS has a "staff development" teacher who is supposed to be in charge of all of the testing -- I think. Is that unusual?[/quote]

I am the 2nd ESOL teacher PP. There is one person designated at each school to be  test coordinator. It can be any staff member although it usually is one who is not responsible for teaching students. At my school it is a person who does not instruct students. But she has decided that ESOL teachers need to officially coordinate ACCESS, the statewide ESOL test.  Coordinating a test is hugely time consuming. It involves everything from attending training (which we don't get sub time for), creating a schedule with many moving parts, inventorying test materials, training other staff members involved, scanning tests in and out, putting labels on tests, creating testing buckets for each testing group, sharpening a ton of pencils (for real) and then boxing up all tests at the end of the window. Plus then there's the actual testing window, along with us being pulled to be test administrator or proctor for PARCC, MSA science. We basically don't teach at all 3rd quarter. We also need to give grades for our students so it's a mad dash to get any work samples from students to grade. It's so unfair to them to get graded on something they didn't receive sufficient instruction on.

I don't understand why we are the only staff members directly responsible for instructing students who have to coordinate a test. They would never require 3rd-5th grade teachers to coordinate PARCC. Nor should they be expected to do that.

My principal has not yet figured out that our test coordinator has delegated much of her responsibilities, yet still doesn't have time to do her actual non test coordinator job because she micro manages the work she has delegated. Since she is the official STC she can't leave us alone with the test materials so she sits in the room overseeing us while we work. [/quote]

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