nobody likes tests
but i tell you, i think that i'd prefer to sit a test than mark 30 of them! well more like i'd prefer to sit 5 tests than mark 150 of them (that is 30x5 right?)!!especially a highschool test- the answers seem so obvious when you're teaching the subject!
my dad (sweet guy that he is) decided to sit my yr 10 science test for FUN last night... FUN!?well speaking of fun, when we (some of the science teachers in our office) were doing the calculations for the marking key, i realized that i MISSED doing maths!! dont tell shazza rey- but i think maths is FUN!! :S
posted by caz | 9:22 pm
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everyone comes around eventually, maths is the best subject ever!!!
and i've decided i'd rather sit tests than mark them too...marking is such a drag. i'll have 3 classes worth of investigations to mark this long weekend...gross.
stupid tests ruin everything! so much for a relaxing long weekend... i wonder if i can get my JY group to mark for me as a service project!!
you are all hilarious. instead of giving tests, why not try other forms of summative assesment? Like putting on a play, or designing a skateboard ramp along the tangent of a curb? All you teachers ever do is TEST TEST TEST.
But seriously, there are some awesome resources out there for some serious non-Test assesment.
thats want i'm doing with my senior science class where i'm the only teacher and its non-TEE (what do you people call your "finals"? SATs?)
but all the other classes i am only one of a whole bunch of teachers and i'm only first yr out so... not so much...
see, in Canada, we don't have TEE, or SAT, or any standardized high school exit exam. And we're still just as smart. Funny that. There's more to life than a GPA!!!! That gives teachers more lee-way, we don't have to spend all of our time preparing students to write tests that weigh far too heavily on them anyway. Why not embrace diversity and find creative ways to teach and assess? SATs are so old school.
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