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steve acree (Stephenpe)
Member
Username: Stephenpe
Post Number: 31
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 11:31 am: |       |
Have any of your observed what is going on in the regular ed classroom in recent years? Testing has become the end all for everything. In Fla. they can be retained for not passing a single test.
Is that not the stupidest thing you have ever heard of? It is like state lawmakers have decided teachers are really too stupid to assess kids and make correct decisions. I feel for them and thank God I teach PE. How do you kill PE? Try and make it like a regular class. Give out lots of handouts on the history of sports, the rules of games and demand that they actually SIT in a chair and regurgitate it just like they do for social studies/reading/science etc. Just spend lots of time with them in lines waiting to do some skill that they will hardly ever get to use in some actual game. Make them take written tests often to show they have "knowledge" of specific games and sports.
btw, I know there are exceptions to my comments and I welcome the debate. And I am so glad this forum is actually moving and working now with people getting posting and talking. Keep it up.
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Anne DeVenny O'Sullivan (Osullivan)
New member
Username: Osullivan
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 8:56 pm: | |
This is how we are killing PE for children in SC. A new PE assessment program(SCPEAP) requires teachers to video tape children doing performance indicators. Teacher must assess the various movement forms, score with a rubric, then a committe watches a percentage of the tapes, and the school's PE program is given rating. The assessment is very rigid, time comsuming, and limit the children movement. While I'm tossing the volleyball to one student, what are the 25 other students doing? Why is it necessary to humiliate a child who physical skills are not with his peers? No considersation is given to the creative and innovative things that I teach in class. The quality of my program is judged by following testing procedures and whether I assess according to the state's strictly subjective rubric. Take a look at the testing manuel. (SCAHPERD.org SCPEAP ) It's crazy. |
steve acree (Stephenpe)
Intermediate Member
Username: Stephenpe
Post Number: 40
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 8:40 am: | |
Sounds like some ivory tower idiot has decided what would prove that teachers are accountable.
I swear that all teachers need to speak up about some of the idiocy that is being passed for assessment and good practices. Governing bodies like state legislators are always willing to prove how brilliant they are by passing laws and rules for the rest of society. As public schools have been the whipping boy for many years it is an easy target. Teachers are so
busy teaching they don't realize they are under attack. If the current climate regarding testing does not prove it then they are oblivious. |
Anne O'Sullivan (Osullivan)
Junior Member
Username: Osullivan
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 5:11 pm: | |
I will continue to fight this unrealistic assessment. I have written letters to legislators and even the Governor. I am convinced that legislators do not read the information that is given to them. This was push through by a handful of professors who have not been in the public school arena for a very long time. $400,000 dollars was allotted for the program none of which has been given to the schools. SCPEAP is offering $100.00 a day plus expenses to watch videos for 10 days in June. I could buy a jump rope for very child in my school for that amount of money. |
