When we talk about testing, parents worry that it means more teaching to the test.
In those five minutes he has mastered the art of teaching to the test and making it look almost reputable.
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.
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.
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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It leads to a narrowing of the curriculum and a widespread teaching-to-the-test mentality that is little better than teaching by rote.
When you teach to the test you end up teaching kids how to take tests and not much else.
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Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching plans to test Piazza this fall at 27 community colleges.
Norvig pays a small team of contractors to just do random searches all day to test the Google engine, in the hope of teaching it to learn on its own.
Mike Appleyard, cabinet member for education and skills, said the test was to find pupils who can cope with the rigours of grammar school teaching.
"Strategies to improve test and examination performance, coupled with teaching that focuses heavily on preparation for the qualifications, does not equip pupils for their futures, " says the booklet destined for secondary schools.
Ofsted's report on maths teaching, published at the end of last year, said too much of it was "taught to the test" and that this did not equip pupils for their futures.
Charlie Taylor, chief executive at the Teaching Agency, which is responsible for administering the new test, said it was part of his strategy "to create an outstanding workforce of teachers".
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