There is a great disconnect between students and teachers as evidenced by the gap between student and teacher in the frame; we put a majority of stress and responsibility on the shoulders of students to test well and the results of standardized testing is a great factor in what happens to a school, regardless of how accurately the testing reflects the true abilities of a teacher or student. ... Perhaps our reliance on testing to represent that everything is not quite accurate and a better method can be found, though there is still a great stress upon the shoulders of teachers and students. Du...

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Stress effects the body in so many ways health is a big one, to avoid the stress you avid the stressor. ... I'm worried about tomorrow's test." ... Children in the third grade are too young to be experiencing this kind of stress, this is the grade in which the standardized testing begins. ... Children should be taught how to learn and not taught to deal with the anxiety they are likely to endure caused from the stress of passing a test. ... Where a good school passes this test and the bad school fails. ...

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Students must also increase in theirs test scores in order to be promoted to the next level. ... He claims that the schools and the teachers go into a lot of stress having the students become proficient in their academic subjects (Rapoport, Tenth 134). ... She claims that schools headboard plans out the testing dates for the students, being a monthly test throughout the whole school year. Goodman explains that the teachers and the students get pressured on that by the time they take the state exam they are stressed out (Goodman, Teachers 264-5). ... Goodman explains that by taking so many tes...

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The other side of the argument is that teachers, at least in New York State, are forced to prepare students for the Regents tests that all students must take. ... If the teacher does take time to teach the multicultural version of American history, he or she is taking that much time away from preparing the students for their state mandated tests. ... If they have a desire to teach a multicultural version of American history they have to do so at the expense of the students" test grades. ... Teachers are expected to prepare students for the state mandated tests, which, in my personal expe...

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This helps the kids think quickly and hopefully help them get ready for tests. ... This can be used for a review for a test or exam, or even at the end of the week to debrief. ... After they analyze the students formulate a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. ... Then the students are stresses to figure out the "new" problem. ... Students should be given the opportunity to form their own hypothesis and design an experiment to test the hypothesis. ...

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The NCLB act creates stressful school environments for schools by mandating that standardized testing weighs more than student work, increases paper work for the classroom teacher, and has shown few improvements in education overall. ... The Act also makes it look as if the school systems now are all about test grades [OBr13] [Deb09]. Every meeting that teachers have are about to get test grades higher. However, what good are test grades being higher if the student did not learn anything on the test and the teacher gives them the answer to improve AYP so that the school can get extra federal...

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"The major source of stress in life for the person with Asperger's Syndrome is social contact, and increased stress generally leads to anxiety disorders and depression.""... A Guide for Parents and Professionals) since the classroom is always a social group and engenders social contact a classroom is the major source of stress for a child with Asperger's Syndrome. ... Although it may not be within a teachers' spectrum of expertise to conduct diagnostic tests, it should be within a teacher's expertise to recognise the needs for such tests. ...

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If a teacher does everything for the child, he or she will be comfortable by doing nothing; on the contrary, if the teacher does absolutely nothing and delegates all the responsibility to the student, they will become overwhelmed and stressed, therefore, not learning as much as they can. ... When I was a mentor to my freshman, I stressed the fact that they should be themselves, while also teaching them not to judge others just because they are different. ... When assessing my students, I will most likely give out pre-tests to see how much the students know about the subject we are about to lea...

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