Before taking the i-Ready Assessment, kindergarteners practice clicking on their answer choice (in this case, responding to “what do you use to see?”) and learn to push the speaker button to hear a question repeated out loud. Way back in the late 1960s, when federal officials and eminent psychologists were first designing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, they probably never contemplated testing students younger than nine. After all, the technology for mass testing at the time—bubble sheets and No. 2 pencils—only worked if students could read the instructions and the questions, hold a pencil, and fill in their answers. Yes, there have been early-childhood assessments available for decades, instruments like the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, but they require teachers...
By SoekhVyas Lets get into spelling errors and how they effect us when it comes down too our ability to judge messages. Now if you were to correct me on the faulty use of lets, effect and too you are completely right for doing so, because there are plenty of benefits in correcting someone’s mistakes. Corrections offer us an opportunity to learn and better ourselves. In reality, though no one is waiting for you to correct their spelling or grammar mistake if you completely understood what message was tried to be conveyed. If you mainly were concerned about how those words didn’t mean what I thought they meant, but you did understand which words should be in their place...
By Caroline Parker In Chris McGee’s second grade class, a hush falls over the room. McGee announces that students have two more minutes to wrap up rehearsing with their partners, and their puppets, before they will be presenting to the class. There is a collective inhale of excitement, and students hurry to perfect their scripts and get ready to perform. Photocredit : iStockphoto What North Carolina standard is incorporated in this lesson? The class is learning about quotation marks and how to use them. They are writing their own dialogue, working with a partner to create the conversation, and practicing their public speaking with puppet in hand. This is what an A+ North Carolina School looks like in action...
My thoughts: As a lifetime resident of North Carolina having lived on the coast of that grand old state, I was intrigued at the opportunity to read a story about the Lost Colony. Long a source of mystery unique to North Carolina, the assumptions and speculations about what those early people endured and what happened to them has been woefully missing facts to flesh out their history. Author Shannon McNear portrays history with vivid authenticity.The reality is, we simply don't know. But the possibilities of hostile peoples completely eradicating those early settlers as well as the possibility of assimilation into the culture and life of the native people's lives is also a daring possibility. The settlers had a desire to bring...
This piece is part 3 of the series “Poor Self-Image & Intimate Relationships. Finalizing this series with the current article, we will dive even deeper into the problems that arise due to poor self-image. The root of the issues that come up in these articles is usually the negative self-image, but as you might have noticed progressing the series, the emerging problems get harder to explain with only one variable. The pinnacle, so to say, of having low self-esteem is the consistent need to victimize yourself in front of others. Note that this is different from being an *actual* victim and understanding that you were abused in some way. What we are talking about is people who are going through...
