Staff Development Blueprint Representations Cooperative learning Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback Generating and Testing Hypotheses Cues standards of learning for School http://eclipse.cps.k12.va.us/departments/Staffdev/blueprnt.htm
The Department Virginia Department of Education and reflected in student standards of learning. If there are any questions or concerns about the test administration, state http://www.bridgewater.edu/departments/education/The Department.htm
Extractions: Elementary Education Secondary Education PreK-12 Programs Special Education ... Other Information Bridgewater College provides a state-approved program for the preparation of elementary, secondary, and special education teachers. Students who successfully complete our program and pass the Praxis tests will be eligible to seek licensure and be certified to teach in Virginia. The Education Core Curriculum All students, regardless of major or endorsement area, will be required to complete each of the following education courses with a minimum grade of C. Courses: EDUC 100: Teaching as a Profession EDUC 200: Developmental Psychology EDUC 201: Field Experience I EDUC 202: Field Experience II EDUC 215: Exceptional Student EDUC 260: Practicum in Current Teaching Techniques EDUC 301: Field Experience III EDUC 302: Field Experience IV (Optional) EDUC 316: Strategies for Teaching Math EDUC 334: Reading in the Content Area EDUC 335: Foundations of Literacy Development EDUC 370: Classroom Management EDUC 406: Curriculum and Instruction for preK-6 endorsement EDUC 440: Foundations of American Education THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE PART OF THE PROFESSIONAL SEMESTER GROUPING AND WILL BE TAKEN AT THAT TIME.
Extractions: Commentary of the Day - September 14, 2003: SOLomon's Wisdom. Guest commentary by Pamela Matlack Klein. Here in Appomattox, Virginia, like in so many southern and mid-western communities, the teaching of theories of evolution is a hotly contested issue. However, until a few weeks ago I was under the mistaken assumption that the argument over the teaching of so-called Creation Science in the public schools was moot. Moot because, in this community, those who care deeply about Creationism either home school or enroll their children in private Christian academies. I had a rude awakening over breakfast recently when checking to see how prominently placed my weekly column was in our copy of the local paper. There, right on the front page, was the headline, "School Committee studying creationism; theory could be taught in Appomattox." My shock was profound and my outrage so vocal that all the cats immediately ran for cover under the bed. As a Master Naturalist in the County 4H Environmental Education Program I am too well acquainted with the deep distrust with which the local populace views the topic of evolution. Many of them are proud to be ignorant on this subject and count themselves lucky that such dangerous secular rubbish is not polluting their children's tender and malleable minds. That these same children score hideously low on the SATs, in part because they lack a strong background in science, doesn't seem to faze them in the least. The kid will do fine working at Wal-Mart and his immortal soul won't be endangered by the seductive siren call of godless Big Science.
NSTA - Education News 22 2002 Washington Post In this era of high-stakes testing, educators at exhibits can help students study for the state s standards of learning (SOL) exams http://www.nsta.org/educationnews/&category_ID=196
Extractions: A group of Georgia science teachers, convened by the state schools superintendent to help resolve an imbroglio regarding the treatment of evolution in state's science curriculum, has decided in favor of retaining the term and its related concepts. "We're empowering the teachers of Georgia to teach science as it should be taught," said Stephen Pruitt, the state's science curriculum specialist. "No teacher will have to stand in front of the Board of Education or anybody else and have to defend why they are teaching evolution." Without using the word "evolution," the state Board of Education made it clear it thinks the scientific theory should be taught to Georgia's students in its entirety. During an hourlong discussion, the state board put together a public statement that calls for all areas of the state's new curriculum to be "world-class, beginning with the full inclusion of the recognized national standards in each curriculum area...." That includes national science standards, which call for teaching evolution and using the word in the classroom.
Getting Started If you dislike the testing option, you may turn in a to be aware of the standards of learning for Virginia You may look at these standards at http//www.pen.k12 http://www.hearth.org/id42_m.htm
Extractions: The Law. Before you begin home schooling, you need to determine which option under the Virginia law, you will be using. Details of the Virginia Law may be found at www.heav.org We recommend HSLDA membership. HSLDA is the Home School Legal Defense Association, and provides legal assistance for free to members, as well as providing information about what is happening in home school law in the legislature and in the courts. Notification. Once you have decided which option you will be using, you will need to turn in a notice of intent to provide home instruction or a letter of intent (if using option IV of the home school statute of the Virginia Code) by August 15th of the school year you will be teaching, to your local school district. In Warren County the contact is:
Untitled Document This will be accomplished by taking a test. and use appropriate instructional hardware and software to support Virginias standards of learning and other http://lasi.lynchburg.edu/McKenzie_w/public/competencies.htm
Extractions: The following eight standards are required for instructional personnel in Virginia. At Lynchburg College, you have two options towards meeting these competencies. You can enroll in and pass EDHD 590 (Computer Applications in the Classroom) or you can complete a set of tasks on your own that demonstrate these proficiencies. In some cases, the professor in a particular class you are taking may assign a task that will fulfill some of these competencies. When this occurs, have your professor acknowledge fulfilling the particular requirement by signing the EDHD Technology Certificate Checksheet. This may be obtained from the departmental office or from me, or you may print it directly from this website. Once you have all eight competencies checked off, then return the checksheet to me (Dr. McKenzie). This will qualify you for a Certificate of Computer Proficiency, which will be placed in your employment file or given to you directly. Before getting started, take a look at the
The Carroll News Online - Archives have suggested that to meet the standards outlined by the maintain that if the students learn the material testing because many of those tests administered in http://www.thecarrollnews.com/cgi-local/carrollnews?section=archive&arsec=busine
The Socrates Institute better and no worse than any other standardized tests. The SOL tests also eventually will be used misconception that all children can learn challenging concepts http://www.socratesinstitute.org/about/press3_6_99.html
Extractions: Times-Dispatch Staff Writer Dr. Lawrence H. Cross can't believe the massive changes he's seeing in the state's public education arena. Standardized tests to determine whether a student will receive a high school diploma? Ludicrous, Cross said. Standardized tests to determine whether schools are doing their jobs correctly? Ridiculous, Cross said. Standardized tests being used as a way to raise academic standards? Absurd, Cross said. Cross, a professor of educational research and measurement at Virginia Tech, gave the state's new standardized tests, the Standards of Learning, a verbal thrashing yesterday. He made his comments during a small group session of the Virginia Educational Research Association's annual conference, which was held in Chesterfield County. About 35 educational researchers attended the conference. The association is a nonprofit group with about 100 members whose mission is to serve the research and evaluation needs of professional educators in Virginia. Cross said the SOL tests are no better and no worse than any other standardized tests. "It's not the test that's the bad guy, it's the use to which it's being put." His criticism comes at a time when educators, students and parents apparently are trying to make sense of the new tests, which are based on a tougher curriculum approved by the state Board of Education in 1995.
Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) How do you expect kids to learn how to to spend the rest of my professional career teaching to a standardized test. More important no more highstakes tests. http://www.susanohanian.org/outrage_fetch.php?id=133
Publius - June 2000 Students do not learn to analyze or synthesize No standardized test has ever helped a person have an original thought The SOL tests are not given at the end of a http://www.jccdemocrats.com/publius/june2000.html
Extractions: Publius June 2000 If you would like to express your opinion in our anonymous column; send your essay to the Corresponding Secretary. This month, Publius would like a little feedback; he is considering sending this letter to the Virginia Inquirer and/or the Daily Mess SOL Tests The citizens of Virginia are the victims of a colossal fraud. We are waking from a nightmare only to discover that reality is worse. The bad dream is the lamentable Standards of Learning Test and the reality is the chaos, finger-pointing and waste it causes. A huge amount of instructional time is being used in preparation for and administration of these endless tests. Students do not learn anything when they are taking a test. And, the financial cost is not worth it. This money could be used to improve classroom skills such as writing, research or computing which these short sighted tests do not address. Some teachers are already teaching to the test. This may be the worst of the effects of these inane tests. When we teach our students to memorize obscure facts and regurgitate them using only multiple choice tests, we neglect to develop higher level thinking skills. Students do not learn to analyze or synthesize. No standardized test has ever helped a person have an original thought. The SOL tests are unfair. History, math and other subjects are taught in sequential order. The SOL tests are not given at the end of a course. Questions on topics which have yet to be addressed in the classroom permeate the SOLs like a cancer. The injustice is obvious.
