Re: test scores
Posted by Smith on 7/31/08
You said the scores are bad. Are you referring to all of the
schools are just were you work? I am really anxious just to
see how my students did, but also nervous b/c as you said
the gov't is sure to try to get rid of teachers who students
are performing low. The school I work at put a lot of
teachers on like a "probation" telling them that their
scores have to come up or they will lose their jobs. I think
this is so unfair!
n 7/25/08, ?? wrote:
> Test scores are in and as most teachers expected they are
> bad. I don't know about the rest of you about "raising the
> bar", but I'm not really confident that many kids can jump
> any higher than they have already jumped. We did the best
> we could to prepare them, but the test was way too long.
> I'm not sure that having a long test is actually a good
> measure of what they know.
> I suppose our state sup and the legislature will now try
> to figure out how they can get rid of all of us who cannot
> teach kids well enough so that they can score high. Gee,
> I think that means a lot of us will not have a job.