Hello Parents and Students,
This post is
regarding this week's TOPIC OF THE WEEK! This week's topic is...drum
rolllllllllllll...EQAO Testing!
The grade 7's in the
class experienced grade 6 testing last year, but for many of you, "grade 6
EQAO testing" might be something you find yourself hearing and thinking a
lot about for the first time. So, what is EQAO testing? EQAO testing was introduced
in Ontario Legislation in 1996 to help
ensure that there is accountability between school boards and schools in the
publicly funded system in Ontario.
Educators use the results of Ontario’s province-wide tests in
combination with other important information, such as report cards and
demographic information, to help improve student learning and achievement. If
you want to learn more about what EQAO testing is, you can find more
information here.
EQAO testing has
been subject to some controversy throughout its existence. My students know
that I like to look at both sides of an issue, so I think it might be
worthwhile to visit this website to read/watch a little bit of the 'other side of the story'.
Throughout some of
our math and language arts periods this year you will find that we might take a
minute or so to pause as a class at the end of a lesson and try and solidify
(or pin-point) the major idea that we talked about in that lesson. I will create
a big on-going list of these major topics and keep them posted in the
classroom. This way, everyone will be
well aware of all of the big concepts that we have been working on throughout
the year at any point. These big
concepts discussed over the year in math and language arts are the same
big concepts that the EQUA test questions will focus on.
*Parents:
I will be posting a picture of the on-going list at various stages (hopefully
about once a month), so you are well aware of some of these major concepts as
well.
Want to check out
St. John's grade 3 and 6 results from the last school year (2011-2012)? Visit here.
If you have any
questions do not hesitate to contact me,
Happy thoughts,
Miss Scott
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