Posted on March 26, 2012 |
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This scenario comes from documentation sent to a Kennewick district administrator. This teacher has been working to implement SBG in her classroom for nearly 5 years but still struggles with the cycle of reteaching and reassessing. You are right. Most teachers give of themselves daily to meet student needs and you would notice that in a walk-through of any school. I finally see why you might not realize the full impact of SBG on teachers as you may not understand the cycle required to implement it. Hopefully, this will help bring us closer to understanding. SBG requires far more time than the traditional grading system. In order to maintain the workload of assessment, many H3MS teachers are working an additional ½ to 2 ½ hours a day to meet student assessment / reassessment needs.
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![There was an evaluation system that had passed through the [Washington] state legislature last year which was a four tiered process. OSPI and WEA were working together with a pilot program to develop the system but that wasn’t good enough for the same folks that last year had pushed that very bill. Nope, now the stakes have to be higher. It was determined that a certain percentage of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on their students’ test scores. It doesn’t’ matter what percentage it is, it does matter that it is based on test scores. This is called “high stakes testing”. Follow this link to read the entire article: http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/opting-out-of-high-stakes-testing/](http://ksdcitizens.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/category-info-115x115.png "High Stakes Testing for Kennewick Students and Teachers")
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