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Originally Posted by AchtungBaby80
That's not what I've seen. In all the schools I subbed in and especially the ones where I student taught, there was a lot of "teaching to the test" going on...and the worst one was a school with extremely high schores (of the top-ten-in-the-state variety). I guess that tactic worked, but the teachers weren't very happy about it.
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What does "teaching to the test" even mean?
I'm asking in earnest - I don't know how you can 'teach to the test' for something like history or math. Even in English classes, where these charges pop up most, the rhetorical devices and vocabulary that are the root of these charges are fantastic writing skills on their own right.
How can "teaching to the test" be different from "learning"?