from a Dane County educator: A key component in the efforts to reform education is the use of standardized assessments to measure progress and to hold our educators and schools accountable. While assessment is a vital part of any classroom it has become a more dominant aspect of the process than it should be. As a 4th grade educator I will spend close to 30 hours administering standardized assessments to my students this year. That is about as many hours of art instruction as they will receive, or as many hours of music as they are allotted. I hear educators from primary grades talking about how they havent yet gotten into their curriculum because they are still administering assessments. Our students who are most at risk are not being taught, all so that we can determine that they need to receive instruction in the areas that our assessments identify as needs. Yet, any educator in my school building can already tell who is in need of more intensive support, even without specific data about a student.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:06:40 +0000
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