The Malicious Monocle » standardised testing http://wooz.edublogs.org Ramblings of a largely random nature Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Standardised Teasing http://wooz.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/standardised-teasing/ http://wooz.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/standardised-teasing/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:16:00 +0000 wooz http://wooz.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/standardised-teasing/ I arrived at my co-operating school today only to be told by the secretary that there is standardised testing occuring in all of the 8th grade classrooms today. I set this day and time with the my co-op teacher a few weeks ago. Why couldn’t he email or call me to let me know it wasn’t going to be a good day?

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Now I’m wondering if the people from Cardinal Stritch are going to want me to redo my student teaching resume to include this. If the test was for Middle School I’d be more sure, but I don’t want to teach elementary school so therein the confusing lies.

At this moment I’m attempting to complete an assignment for my Methods class, but I can’t make heads or tails of the assignment from the syllabus. Hopefully someone from my cohort will answer the e-mail I’ve sent out asking for help.

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