We have begun the testing season. Today was the 10th grade Competency Exam. All students must pass all parts of this exam in order to graduate. This has nothing to do with NCLB. Our state has mandated this one for over a decade now. This is the standardized test that all students take seriously.
This is also the first full blown testing for our new Testing Coordinator. I wasn't sure how it would go. TC seemed a little flakey. She gave us (State mandated) Test Security Training last semester, then spent a lot of very visible time tracking down teachers who skipped it. Her emails were bad. Her lists contained errors. The room captains were announce two days ago and got no training or advanced instruction. It didn't look good.
It went great! She did what I'd been complaining about her predecessors not doing. She treated us like intelligent, educated professionals who were capable of reading directions, understanding directions, following directions, and guiding the students. It couldn't have gone smoother, and TC couldn't have been calmer through the whole thing.
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