This, of course, requires shifting still more teaching to graduate students and other adjunct, non-tenured faculty.
When we talk about testing, parents worry that it means more teaching to the test.
Testing is boring, and teaching to tests makes education meaningless, and creates all sorts of bad incentives.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
There is not enough good or outstanding teaching to overcome students' past underachievement.
In those five minutes he has mastered the art of teaching to the test and making it look almost reputable.
If you really, truly want to measure outcomes, you should not create a system that incentives teaching to a test.
People understood the difference between ICT, which is teaching children to read, and computer science, which is teaching them to write.
But the government's ambitions to extend language teaching to younger pupils will depend on tackling a shortage of modern languages teachers.
The more liberal Catholic thinkers believe the next pope must embrace that society and adapt the Church's teaching to better reflect it.
Pretty soon, all the incentives for the schools become geared towards teaching to those tests, and everything else falls by the wayside.
Teaching to tests is utterly wrong-headed, especially when those tests are crafted at the state level and devoted almost solely to math and reading.
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The unions said the tests did not give a true picture of pupils' attainment, encouraged teaching to the test and put pupils under pressure.
And we should grant our educators the flexibility to teach with creativity and passion in the classroom and not just teaching to the test.
The check "is going to mean a lot of schools teaching to the test" and could leave some youngsters feeling they had failed, she added.
This helps keep the bad incentives at a minimum, and cheating and other violations much less frequent, while allowing creative approaches to teaching to flourish.
And here at Graham Road, they're using innovative approaches to provide effective teaching to all their students, and that's something that all of America's schools have to do.
He, and others, think the gains from SATs at any age are not worth the costs, which include a narrowing of the primary curriculum and ever-increasing teaching to the test.
So Stevenson developed a proposal with Wyss that demonstrated the financial need of HBS doctoral students and the power of their research and teaching to make the world a better place.
Educational kits and digital resources will be made available to train and support more than 1, 200 teachers who will devote 600 hours of literacy and life skills teaching to girls in Senegal.
But high-stakes standardized testing actually pushes these schools to destroy themselves, wiping out the programs that actually do deliver value to these high-aptitude students and instead focusing on teaching to the tests.
The choice movement always struck me as a path toward division and the breakdown of the neighborhood school, and teaching to tests is perhaps the most wrong-headed idea education reformers have ever dreamed up.
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Professors at most U.S. universities, for example, must publish in addition to teaching to be granted tenure, and the basic research done at universities is often the basis for many new products and technologies.
But placing too much faith in tests will ultimately be self-defeating, creating a more narrow curriculum and a culture of teaching to the test that goes against the higher ideals of our public education system.
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Sue Pope of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, said some schools were doing an excellent job but too much teaching to the test meant that not enough young people were getting "the opportunity to experience the excitement, fascination, joy and beauty of maths".
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Secretary Duncan and I will be working to promote the teaching profession to show young people that teaching is one of the best and most rewarding ways to serve our country.
Business schools seem to do a great job of teaching people how to be managers, but a lousy job of teaching people how to lead and inspire people.
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Awareness education is key to teaching how to identify the emotional triggers in a spear phishing email.
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In general I have worked with people who have a real commitment to their teaching and to the welfare of the young people at their schools.
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