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What do you want to have happen in 2015?

Forget Common Core. 
Stop NCLB testing. 
Let teachers teach according to what the child needs to learn. Start where the kid is.

Hahaha! How are you going to know where the kid is, if you don't TEST them?

Moronic.
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Teacher here.  If you think that one test---any one test---is going to tell you where to start with a child, you are deluding yourself.  The only real way to know "where a kid is"---if you can completely "know"--- is to give the child tasks and observe how the child attacks those tasks and what the outcomes are.  This takes time and a skilled/experienced teacher.  The "knowing" is about so much more than a test result.  Every child approaches a work situation differently and that is key to understanding how to teach the child.  No test can give you that kind of information---especially not a multiple choice test.  If you want to have an appropriate education for each child, start with teachers who spend time getting to know how each child learns.  This is what teachers really want to do and it produces a rewarding learning environment for both the teacher and the student.  [/quote]

Genuine question to you, the Teacher - how do you teach to each child when there are 30+ kids in the class?  In both my DC's K classes, one pre CC, the teacher couldn't spend much individual time with each child, especially not enough time to get to know how each child approaches a problem.  I would think that seeing how a child approaches a particular problem is not indicative of how that child learns overall.  It could be just that problem. And also, it would take several minutes of interaction to understand how that child learns.  In a lot K classes, there are just too  many kids to do this effectively.[/quote]

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