Rachel's Blog
When reading your blog about how difficult and early the CST was, I was laughing because I felt the same exact way. While i was reading the responses I just wanted to daze off and be somewhere else. This reminded of the way the SAT's and ACTs are for high school students. It is known that students cannot focus so early in the morning, especially when they have a test. If we cant do it and we are only 6 years older than them, what makes other people think that these students can take a test so early to the best of their ability? It is also so important that on a test their is a variety of questions for students to answer because not every student is good at answering every type of question. There needs to be a balance. The CST only had reading comprehension questions and so many of them that i was getting confused and just tired of reading. All you can do is in the future make sure that every test you give out as a teacher is differentiated and hold review classes. If you have 1st period and that class is always tired, remind them to go to sleep early the day before the test and then give them a small breakfast even to get their brains going. This is such a hard thing to fix because these state tests are mandated by the state so as a teacher you cannot really control it, but you can help and encourage your students.
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