Minister defends education standards ahead of announcement
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The following comments have been made by Tolley:
'Teachers will need to know how a student reached an answer, rather than simply whether the answer was correct.'
'It was about "digging into" how a student learnt.'
I am appalled as National Standards is about quantitative reporting specifically on who has achieved, who is below and who is way below the bench mark set in the National Standards for certain aspects of literacy and numeracy (Ref NAG 2a at the Ministry of Education website).
Her comments above are what most of our teachers already do seeing as learning is highly complex and individual. Digging into how students learn is a great way of describing what we have at present.
National Standards and the required reporting is not congruent with her comments at all. A plunket graph shows a result obtained in a standardised test not how the child got to the answer.
The following comments have been made by Tolley:
'Teachers will need to know how a student reached an answer, rather than simply whether the answer was correct.'
'It was about "digging into" how a student learnt.'
I am appalled as National Standards is about quantitative reporting specifically on who has achieved, who is below and who is way below the bench mark set in the National Standards for certain aspects of literacy and numeracy (Ref NAG 2a at the Ministry of Education website).
Her comments above are what most of our teachers already do seeing as learning is highly complex and individual. Digging into how students learn is a great way of describing what we have at present.
National Standards and the required reporting is not congruent with her comments at all. A plunket graph shows a result obtained in a standardised test not how the child got to the answer.
Tags: Tolley, national_standards
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