Anonymous wrote:There is nothing important enough in one test or writing assignment worthy of retesting. Study harder and perform better on the next test. You can learn from your mistakes without retesting. During the school year there is a body of work the students need to master and there is a limited amount of time to do so. If you are constantly retaking the test from last week , you'll never learn the new material for this week and the future.

Or nobody will learn it because the teacher is busy reteaching.

There is nothing important enough in one test or writing assignment worthy of retesting. Study harder and perform better on the next test. You can learn from your mistakes without retesting. During the school year there is a body of work the students need to master and there is a limited amount of time to do so. If you are constantly retaking the test from last week , you'll never learn the new material for this week and the future.

That's what I figured PP. So, because students aren't preparing for assignments, the teachers are given up their lunch time to reteach. Insanity! All because today's special snowflakes can't/won't prepare for their tests/quizzes, etc. My friend is a teacher and she gets 30 minutes for lunch. If she shoves the food down her mouth, she has time to run to the bathroom, answer an email or make a quick phone call. She said she is constantly in meetings during her planning time. There is no way in hell I would allow my child to take up any of a teacher's precious little time because he wanted a Take 2.

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Anonymous wrote:In FCPS if something isn't mastered we are supposed to re teach and retest until the kid gets it. This is for elementary. The report card is based on whether they finally got the skills, not when.

Just curious. When do you reteach? Do your have to offer up some of your planning time or lunch for students to come be retaught?

NP and also a teacher. On paper no, but in reality yes. If I take up class time to reteach and retest for one or two kids, then the other kids are not getting what they need. Admin and central office say to set aside some time daily for reteaching and retesting, but we don't even have enough time as it is to get through everything. So it ends up coming out of my lunch or planning. Most often lunch because most planning time during the student day is taken up by meetings.

The only retakes I’ve ever heard of are if you missed picture day.

Anonymous wrote:In FCPS if something isn't mastered we are supposed to re teach and retest until the kid gets it. This is for elementary. The report card is based on whether they finally got the skills, not when.

Just curious. When do you reteach? Do your have to offer up some of your planning time or lunch for students to come be retaught?

One of the best teaching methods (or learning methods) is taking a test. You know the material better, remember it more deeply, than you did before taking the test. So if you didn’t do well on a test, the best way to learn it better is to take another test - it forces the brain to store and retrieve the information in memory. So, if the point of school is to learn, and not to achieve grades or rank kids, retakes should be available.

In FCPS if something isn't mastered we are supposed to re teach and retest until the kid gets it. This is for elementary. The report card is based on whether they finally got the skills, not when.

Why should they be offered retakes?

Is there an IEP in place or something?

I’m a third grade teacher and I don’t offer retakes.

No retakes. They have to be prepared for the one test, the one time they take it.

Why would your child be offered retake? This has never been an option for my kids. And we’re talking about 4th grade, why the obsession with grades already?

I never heard anything about retakes. My oldest is in 4th.

My children were never offered retakes until middle school. I don’t agree with them.

What’s your opinion on this? 4th grade or really any grade around that age. Should teachers always offer retakes to individual students?