ADDitude Magazine For People Who Have AD/HD and the Federal government with my daughter s and son s (sols) (standards of learning). will show the same thing as all the standardizes tests of before http://www.additudemag.com/additude.asp?DEPT_NO=104&SUB_NO=1
Our Little Quad:Polyamory For The Practical Virginia has already proven this with the standards of learning tests. They are called (sols) in Virginia educator parlance, and I cannot think of a more apt http://www.ourlittlequad.com/homeschoolrant.html
Extractions: Recommended Reading I sometimes go off. I wrote it in the winter of 2001: I homeschool. Well, sort of. I have a pre-schooler and a kindergartener. The kindergartener knows how to read. I wish I could take credit for it as a sign of my educational brilliance, but frankly, I cannot. You see, I got some videotapes on the alphabet, played Boggle Jr. with him a little bit and he started sounding out letters by himself. From there it was a quick step to curling up with Thomas the Tank Engine books. Lately, he's been reading them to his sister. I had intended to do the flash card thing for math with my son. That fell by the wayside as well. Our next door neighbor has a dog that has lost a leg. One of my husbands, who was concerned about the apparent lack of math drills, decided to use the dog's lack of a full set of legs as a way to play with addition and subtraction. Wouldn't you know it, Baby Thor (my son) and The Bird (my daughter) were able to handle this with ease. Around the dinner table last night, one of my husbands, my wife and my children were talking about our day as usual. To give some background: The Bird is three and while she can sing the ABC song (usually) she is just starting into the phonetic significance of the letters. She started calling out words and asking Baby Thor what letter each word started with.
Richmond.com more detailed curriculum requirements, known as the standards of learning; new statewide tests, in the and on schools to push them to learn and teach http://www.richmond.com/output.cfm?id=744272
Testimony Of Ms. Jane Massey-Wilson areas to help teachers teach the (sols). Consultants have worked with teachers on teaching the standards of learning and on interpreting and analyzing test data. http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/106th/ecyf/esea6999/massey-wilson.htm
Extractions: June 1999 Mr. Castle, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to speak on "Academic Accountability." It is a topic near and dear to my heart, and I appreciate the work you are doing to improve academic accountability in our schools. I come to you today in support of high academic standards, high expectations, and accountability in public schools. Our students deserve no less. American businesses deserve no less. Our children are our most valuable resource for the future. We want to make certain that our students are competitive in the state, the nation, the world. We keep hearing from the business world that students are not prepared in the basics and that businesses are spending large amounts of money teaching recent high school graduates to read and write. We keep hearing from businesses that we need to teach the core academics, and they will train employees in specifics of the job. We must make certain that our students are well educated and have a competitive edge. I support the Virginia K-12 Education Reform to raise student achievement.
HHS Library Page : Teacher Tools SOL Test Blueprints guidelines to what s on the tests; Virginia standards of learning Objectives ((sols)) Unit Lesson Plans Bibliographies http://www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/hhslib/teachtoo.html
Extractions: Clip Art Learning Disabilities Professional organizations Mega-Sites ... WebQuests General Adolescence Directory On-Line : an electronic guide to information regarding adolescent issues and secondary education. AskEric: Ask-A Locator Database : "The AskA+ Locator is a database of high-quality "AskA" services designedto link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet. ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library : links to some of the best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory. EvaluTech : Up-to-date evaluations of software, CD-ROMs, books and videotapes. Sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board Explorer : a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student-created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education The History of Education Site : The History of Education Site offers an international collection of links to online information about the history of education and childhood: from simple short overviews to academic papers. Muskingum College's Learning Strategies Database : a useful database of general-purpose and subject-specific teaching and learning strategies compiled over a 10-year period. Also includes learning style assessment tools
MCEC Assessment Resource Center http//www.pen.k12.va.us/go/(sols)/home.shtml VA Hits 221. released test items for grades 3,5,8, and EOC from the 20012003 standards of learning tests. http://www.militarychild.org/assessment/searchresults.cfm?state=VA
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TAWL Archives -- October 2000, Week 2 (#25) I live in Virginia where the standards of learning ((sols)) and the SOL tests rule. They rule the curriculum and teachers are tied to them. http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0010b&L=tawl&F=&S=&P=2539
TAWL Archives -- October 2000, Week 2 (#33) I live in Virginia where the standards of learning ((sols)) and the SOL tests rule. They rule the curriculum and teachers are tied to them. http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0010b&L=tawl&F=&S=&P=3397
Extractions: University of California, Davis PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH's approach to education policy has earned him cautious plaudits from otherwise hostile critics, who see much to admire in the implementation of standards for education. However useful such standards prove for testing students' technical skills like arithmetic and reading, they create problems for less-standardized processes like thinking about history. Some states, including Virginia, have already instituted "Standards of Learning" (SOLs) to lend coherence to history teaching throughout the state. But the Virginia SOLs' treatment of the Cold War provides ample warning about the perils of such state standardization. The Cuban Missile Crisis ended peaceably as much because of John Kennedy's famous luck (so reliable till it suddenly ran out) as because of good policy or good leadership. The President didn't know that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had delegated responsibility for nuclear weapons in Cuba to the same trigger-happy Russian commander who had shot down an American U-2 at the height of the crisis. The Russian field commander in Cuba could at any time, at the slightest American provocation, have fired off a tactical nuclear missile, which would surely have set off American retaliation. The world had been closer to nuclear incineration than Kennedy knew.
The Winchester Star-Math Comes To Life said teachers have to teach to the tests and really summer field trips to enhance the learning experience. Her take on the standards is slightly different from http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/031031/Area_math.asp
Extractions: (Photo by Scott Mason) Without tangrams to help explain concepts in geometry, students would have a difficult time turning intangible concepts into concrete results. She uses as many hands-on activities as possible to bring the world of math to life. The standards set targets for what teachers need to teach and what students need to learn. They are also what is used by the federal No Child Left Behind Act to determine if students are meeting adequate yearly progress toward complete proficiency in English and math by 2014. Even though the teachers at FDES separate students according to academic ability groups, physical explanations are a part of everyday teaching. Using the story book, Zombro said, students follow the plot and use the tangrams that come with each book to craft the images seen in the book.
Test Usage Information Links Research, articles, and information about HIGH STAKES tests and their misuse. and critics of the Virginia standards of learning tests, thinking the public Charges grow that schools too often http://home.rica.net/airedale/test_usage_information_links.htm
Extractions: [Print Friendly Version] Many of our returning Foreign Service students who are enrolled in American public schools are learning that the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests, required in Virginia, or other state-mandated achievement tests, are given much importance by the local school systems. This paper addresses the Virginia Standards of Learning. At the time of this writing, Maryland is revising their state assessment program. Students going to other states or jurisdictions need to check with their local education professionals Virginia Standards of Learning Standards of Learning (SOL) is a way for the Virginia Department of Education to outline the goals and objectives of the curriculum taught at each grade level in each subject. How these goals and objectives are met is measured by student performance on the state-mandated Standards of Learning tests. In addition to the SOLs, each county has the ability to add another layer of curriculum objectives over the state mandated SOLs. Northern Virginia school districts, which pride themselves on rigorous academic standards, do augment the state SOLs with an additional layer of their own county curriculums in order to "exceed state standards." Instruction and learning outcomes are measured quarterly in some counties by standardized testing in each subject and grade level, in addition to the annual state SOLs. A Parents Guide to Virginia Standards of Learning Program is a helpful resource.
Mrs. Wilborne's SOL Testing Site spring, all third grade students will be tested on K3 standards of learning. the Second Nine Weeks NEW Test Items Release Spring 2001 SOL Test NEW (sols) http://web.dps.k12.va.us/ParkAve/testsite.htm
Extractions: Resource Guide For Social Studies Start Your Own Homonyms List and Learn Homonym - One of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning Homophone - One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or spelling Homograph - One of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning or pronunciation Our third grade curriculum is based completely on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs). The SOLs are the curriculum. Please make yourself familiar with them and work to master each. In the spring, all third grade students will be tested on K-3 Standards of Learning. All fifth grade students will be tested on 4-5 SOLs.
Teacherpage fifth grade, students participate in Virginia state assessments, standards of learning tests. Fifth graders have SOL test prepping sessions once a week that http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/WoodlawnES/fifth/solspage.htm
Extractions: During fifth grade, students participate in Virginia state assessments, Standards of Learning tests. The fifth grade teachers are committed to preparing students for this significant test. Fifth graders have SOL test prepping sessions once a week that teach students strategies for taking a standardized test. There is an after school SOL Remediation class that begins in February for students to receive extra reinforcement of their everyday skills. The fifth grade teachers are also available after school two days a week for students that are having difficuty in a subject area. Students complete a state assessment in English through the Direct Writing test given in March. During the month of May, students will complete the SOL tests in English, Reading, Mathematics, Science and Computer Technology. Back to Fifth Grade Page
Extractions: The purpose of this article is to explore the multifaceted and complex issue of standardized assessment and educational accountability and present results of an informal survey designed to explore the opinions of graduate students in a practitioner-based teacher preparation program regarding standards of learning and teacher training. The issues of appropriateness of SOL tests for at-risk learners and teacher feelings of efficacy following training were addressed in this survey. We feel the results yield useful information that will assist classroom teachers, teacher educators, and policy makers in their development of more effective training programs. In response to current teacher shortages, many schools are being forced to place unprepared individuals in classrooms on provisional licenses. Some alternative paths to teacher licensure may be appropriate to meet these challenges, however, not at the expense of professional standards and integrity. Many quick-fix strategies such as the practice of utilizing teachers in subjects areas in which they are not certified do not serve the best interests of students or teachers (Finding Good Teachers, 1999). Consequences of the imposition of these quick-fix strategies include high burnout rate and poor classroom discipline (Berliner, 2000). Most authorities agree there is a need to find a better solution to the teacher shortage than simply filling classrooms with people who are not properly trained to teach.
VEA : Articles Archives : Detail to do as an outward manifestation of learning in response The emphasis placed on these standards has set the success of instruction through SOL tests, it is http://www.veaweteach.org/articles_archives_detail.asp?ContentID=361
VEA : Articles Archives : Detail The standards of living that I have for my students are even greater than the current standards of learning. Multiple choice tests only measure if a http://www.veaweteach.org/articles_archives_detail.asp?ContentID=351
We Really Learned Without Standardized Tests; Can You Believe It? see, off the top of my head He s got several standards of learning tests coming up Once, after he completed the year s round of tests, he said, not jokingly http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004/042004/04292004/1310196
FETConnections - Winter 2000 The Strands indicate what standards of learning ((sols)) and additional to be sure the students will be prepared for the rigorous testing that Virginia has in http://www.fetc.org/fetcon/1101/badolato.htm
Extractions: Jennifer K. Badolato Project ECOLE is an Electronic Community Of Learning and Education. It is Manassas Park City School System's curriculum in an automated format created by Virginia Computer Institute. Together, we have constructed a web page format for our curriculum and have linked the curriculum to the National Standards and the Virginia Standards of Learning. We have three different webs: a Kindergarten through fifth grade web, a sixth through eighth grade web, and a ninth through twelfth grade web. This project is unique in that it is the only automated curriculum in Virginia. An impressive tool in the project is the 1,500 teacher-created activities designed to teach the National Standards which are linked to the Virginia Standards of Learning. The activities are done in a lesson plan format complete with topic, description, a materials list, directions, scoring rubric, extended activities and resource list. If there are any necessary worksheets, they have been scanned in and are accessible through Adobe Acrobat. Project Partners Explore the Weather The Project Partners component allows the teachers in our school system to work collaboratively on a topic with teachers from other school systems. Through e-groups, the teachers and students can communicate over the Internet and simultaneously explore a topic. This is a very exciting component of Project ECOLE and expands the scope of learning for students and teachers all over the world.
