Tara: ART throughout my school years, and ENGLISH in high school and university. What was your favourite subject in school? Did you ever get in trouble about anything when you were a child?Ĥ. Sara: Once.at the Oak Bay Tea Party.I nearly fell out of the ride called the 'Sky Master”!ģ. Tara: As a young girl I was nearly mauled by a cougar, and as a teenager I came within meters of a black bear -– both while camping in the wilderness of Vancouver Island. Have you ever had a 'near death' experience? Were you scared? Sara: Puffy Socks, Peppermint Tea and Penguins.Ģ. What three things could you never live without? Although these wonderful women look very similar.they are very different!ġ. In this special report we have the pleasure of interviewing both Miss Sara –- who is visiting from Antarctica -– and Miss Tara.

Miss Sara is our resident penguin expert, and will be teaching many of the science lessons during the Penguins theme this January. When Miss Tara joined our teaching team in August of 2011, we had no idea that we would also be learning from her dynamic twin sister, Miss Sara! Miss Tara is our Science and Art teacher, and the homeroom teacher for the 'South' group (Kindergarten). There's almost certain to be a significant mismatch between what's taught and what's tested.Teacher Profile: An Interview with Miss Tara and Miss Sara Getting up close and personal with the 'Science Sisters'! And that's the first reason that standardized achievement tests should not be used to determine the effectiveness of a state, a district, a school, or a teacher. And such mismatches, recognized or not, will often lead to spurious conclusions about the effectiveness of education in a given setting if students' scores on standardized achievement tests are used as the indicator of educational effectiveness. But such general descriptions of what's tested often permit assumptions of teaching-testing alignments that are way off the mark. Those descriptors need to be general to make the tests acceptable to a nation of educators whose curricular preferences vary.

If you spend much time with the descriptive materials presented in the manuals accompanying standardized achievement tests, you'll find that the descriptors for what's tested are often fairly general.

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