http://www.321learn.net/preparing-for-state-testing/ Making Learning Fun Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.321learn.net/preparing-for-state-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-32068 How to Improve Standardized Test Scores | 321 Learn! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:56:26 +0000 http://teachersupport.321learn.net/?p=8#comment-32068 [...] First, my opinion – be sure that in the ever present push to get through each standard on the state mandated curriculum, that children are learning why they need to know the information. Understanding the facts may help them pass a test, but understanding how that information is applicable to their lives is priceless and will ultimately result in better educated adults. It may also be worthy of note to reduce test stress. [...] [...] First, my opinion – be sure that in the ever present push to get through each standard on the state mandated curriculum, that children are learning why they need to know the information. Understanding the facts may help them pass a test, but understanding how that information is applicable to their lives is priceless and will ultimately result in better educated adults. It may also be worthy of note to reduce test stress. [...]

]]> http://www.321learn.net/preparing-for-state-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-5 David Davis Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:53:05 +0000 http://teachersupport.321learn.net/?p=8#comment-5 As to what people today call “stress”, I think we have suffered some dumbing-down. I was 10 in the Cuban Missile crisis, and remember lessons at school being given over to things like how to survive the USSR’s possible nuclear attack - what to do in the event of a 4-minute-warning of an missile attack on London, how to hide, what to hide under, what to put in a box in the cellar for later, and so on. As to what people today call “stress”, I think we have suffered some dumbing-down. I was 10 in the Cuban Missile crisis, and remember lessons at school being given over to things like how to survive the USSR’s possible nuclear attack – what to do in the event of a 4-minute-warning of an missile attack on London, how to hide, what to hide under, what to put in a box in the cellar for later, and so on.

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