November 29

We prepared for YPP language test before the students took it this morning. Mr. Curtis reminded them of strategies that would help them perform better...such as reading the question before reading the passage, what type of question...literal or inference. These strategies are ehlpful because test-taking is a fact of life for these students. But this is not authentic learning! Yet...I can picture myself doing the same thing because test scores are so important to a teacher's reputation. Sad, yes...but it is what it is.

I help Sean, our blind student, a lot during the day. He had the opportunity to take the language YPP test today because I was there to read the test to him. I don't know why we haven't done this all along my duration here.