I feel that the theme testing that we do with Houghton Mifflin does not always test the way the students are taught. My students also do so much better on the paper and pencil testing than that on the computer. I know that assessing is important, but I feel that we are assessing so much that we are losing valuable teaching time. What can we do differently to ease up some of our teaching time? I also am concerned with the time that it takes students to get to one place or another. This also takes up valuable learning time. I have a hard time keeping track of my regular classroom of students because they are going this way and that way all of the time, and yet I am responsible for their learning.
I think that progress monitoring is a very valuable tool to help us see how our students are improving and what needs to be done differently.
Mr. Davenport has so much to do so that we can teach in our classrooms effectively that I don't know how he could do all of what this book is asking of him. This book does offer some great ideas however, if we can figure out how to manage it.
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