So my assignment for this weeks blog is:
Reflect on the idea that tests are the only
objective assessments of student learning.
I have 4 children. Every day is a learning experience with them. They are all different ages and I have two boys and two girls. They have different styles of reading and writing because they all learn from different teachers. My 5 year old just finished her Preschool career and will now be entering Kindergarten with my other two who are older than here. I am pretty sure she knows way more than they did when they went to Kindergarten because she went to a different Preschool than they did and she learned a lot more than they did before they started school. I am sure that there will be students that are at her same level and there will probably be some that are higher, but most of them will be lower I am sure because they did not attend preschool.
With that being said I am sure that they will have to test all of the kids differently according to what they know. I know some of the teachers specialize in helping those kids that have never gone to school before and I know there are others that work with the kids that know what they are doing already. As a teacher I know that there are many different ways to figure out is students know what we are learning. Some of them do well taking tests, some do well giving presentations, some do better doing a project, but all of them show that they know the material in some way.
I do not think that tests are the only way to see if kids know their stuff or not. I think that since the whole world is different that there is probably more ways to accomplish the same goal and sitting taking a test is not the only way.
I found this funny video that I thought would be fun to do with your students to help them learn their testing materials.
