[etni] Fwd: Re: What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students
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From: laurie ornstein <laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students
What Works in the Classroom is, in my opinion, "to the point"! (Not
sure if that is a Freudian slip as there's a textbook of that name)
I've been crying out loud forever and a day that unseen piled on
unseen, Bagrut practice ad nauseam, is not the way to go. I've refused
to "teach" module this or that and get upset when I find teachers
sitting their kids down for just one more practice test.
This is not to say that I send my classes to the exam without knowing
what to expect; one practice test a month is enough. Let's stay with
really teaching English and our pupils will go much further.
Laurie
Michele wrote:
> Here's the end of the article:
>
> One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who
> incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests
> tend to have lower value-added learning gains than those who simply
> work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and
> mathematics.
>
> Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, “We spend a lot of
> time in this class practicing for the state test,” tended to make
> smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.
>
> “Teaching to the test makes your students do worse on the tests,” Ms.
> Phillips said. “It turns out all that ‘drill and kill’ isn’t helpful.”
Margie wrote:
> What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students
> The New York Times / International Herald Tribune
> December 10, 2010
>
> How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers?
> Quite useful, according to preliminary results released on Friday from
> a $45 million research project that is intended to find new ways of
> distinguishing good teachers from bad.
> (To read the whole article, go to -
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/education/11education.html?_r=1&ref=sam_dillon
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