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Below is my response to a recent post on Me myself and LLT entitled ‘When does a snapshot not get the whole picture”. Would love to hear others’ opinions… _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To begin, thanks for your post. This is a great topic and is open to so much interpretation. It is a far more complex question than just should [...] The Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) is British Columbia’s province-wide standardized assessment given to all grade 4 and grade 7 students each year. The tests have been a political firestorm as the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF) has vehemently opposed their existence (and their member’s participation in them) and our provincial government has continued to publicize [...] It seems like every year I am faced with a teacher who wants to keep a grade 8 student in Middle School for another year. Usually these requests are for one of two reasons: The student is not working hard, and thus is not meeting learning outcomes. Recently Larry Ferlazzo authored a post called “A question about teacher attire”. While reading this post and the comments that followed I found myself reflecting not only on my own attire at work but also on that of the teachers in my school. When I started teaching, at the age of 22, I found dressing for work [...] |
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