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Teaching to Test or Teaching to Learn ?
Elizabeth Payne's Ottawa Citizen editorial, "The school system is not broke", is a timely reminder that teaching is a complex process, and formalized testing is not about the learning process. As she says:
There is nothing wrong with making sure everybody is on the same page when it comes to teaching, and that schools are achieving the same goals, but critics are right that standardized testing - subtly and not-so-subtly - shifts the focus in classrooms from learning to assessing how everyone is doing. And much of what good teachers do cannot be assessed in standardized tests.
Read the entire editorial. If you're a classroom teacher, EA, or administrator, share your thoughts about the current state of standardized testing.