3rd grade teacher
Jennifer Preseau
to help them reach their fullest potential
on testing day. Teachers mimic the testing
environment for students and focus on different
social-emotional skills ("perfect effort," student
identity, reflection, stamina, etc.). Student
effort is celebrated – "perfect effort" outweighs
"perfection." Principal Waliczek commented,
"Math Simulations have given our students
leverage when it comes to taking high stakes
tests. Our number one goal for our students
is putting forth perfect effort in a carefully
thought out testing environment. Students
are taught how to effectively use scrap paper
to demonstrate perfect effort and often walk
away feeling good about their testing session
based on effort alone rather than their score.
Our experience has been that focusing on effort
during testing simulations, in combination with
FIM, has resulted in increased test scores."
4th grade teacher
Jan Zimba works with
Brooklyn Bassett
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