Everyone deals with stress in different ways. This week I felt like I was drowning with paperwork. We are submitting our Student Learning Targets this week which is where we set a goal of how much our students will grow by the end of the year. Just a little nerve wrecking. You find yourself contemplating which students you think will go above and beyond whatever goal you set for them and then you have those students that could just completely shut down the day of the test and that goal goes out of the window. Our students take multiple tests. They take the state wide assessment called the iLEAP. They also take these parish wide assessments: STAR test and Measured Progress. That’s THREE tests that I pray my kids try super hard on and show how hard they’ve been working. So all week we’ve been data crunching and trying to figure out where to go with these student learning targets. ON TOP OF THAT… our state has been emailing us “practice tests” to incorporate into our lessons/tests because it is supposedly a “mirror image” of what the test will look like. That’s awesome! but…. where do I find the time to squeeze that in when I barely have time to teach Science and Social Studies along with Math. So I met with my principal, had my breakdown, and went home and hammered out a new strategy to use these practice tests!
Basically my students will complete one test released item a night. They must choose their answer and explain in complete sentences why they chose that answer. If you would like to check it out please download it FREE from my TPT store! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you download it, leave me a comment letting me know how you like it! 🙂
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Here is a preview of what it looks like!
It’s simple, but will get the job done!
