The big weeks are here. The students have been working so hard reviewing for the NYS ELA and NYS Math assessment. Two weeks of testing 3 days each. It is hard not to be worried. You worry that the students will be scared. You worry that you didn't review the things that they put on the test. You worry because although the students are assessed by this test, you are being assessed by your students performance.
On test days it always seemed that the students were eating the pencils. We were constantly running out. The 4th graders loved the listening piece. It hey were excited and writing notes as fast as they could. The 3rd graders were happy that there were a lot of Geometry and Measurement questions because we had just covered those subjects.
Overall, the testing was not as painful as I imagined it would be. The students were exhausted by the end of they day which was a small price to pay for the hard work they put in during the teat. It was a good experience and I feel confident that the next time I face the NYS assessments as a teacher, I will be well prepared.
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