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Michael Dunford

Are you a Worrier or a Warrior? - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...e-while-others-fall-apart.html

education standardized testing habits assessment

shared by Michael Dunford on 10 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Dunford on 10 Feb 13
     
    Why does "test panic" cause some students to shut down and others to thrive? Why does that straight-A student turn into sand during standardized test season? The problem has a lot to do with the rate of dopamine-processing in the brain, and it can be mitigated by experience, so sayeth the NYT.
  • Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS) on 12 Feb 13
     
    I've always been a worrier who shuts down. I can remember vividly running out of the music room in 6th grade crying as I was so stressed and couldn't handle the forced auditions to sing 'All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...". I find my son who seemed to have no anxiety about MCing a school concert in front of a crowd of 1000 in Lao amazing.
Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS)

Overcoming test anxiety - 3 views

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test anxiety

shared by Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS) on 13 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS) on 13 Oct 12
     
    As you are preparing your IELTS specific skills and strategies, are you also preparing stress management techniques?
  • Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS) on 14 Oct 12
     
    Opps...wrong group....then again, as teachers, are we not only preparing with skill area strategies but also reminding our students of stress managment techniques???
Leon Devine

Why we're getting the homework question wrong - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQA1nJGNU_blog.html

shared by Leon Devine on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • What does all this desk and test time mean for the quality of our kids’ lives, now and for their future?
  • putting in a second shift of homework after seven hours in school does not help my son become a more inquisitive, confident, life-long learner with an intrinsic sense of curiosity and joy in discovery. It does not allow my family to strike a graceful balance between school and home life. It does not leave time for those non-academic pursuits — lying on a blanket under the sky and puzzling out the constellations, peering under rocks, putting a nose in a book for long, lost hours — that can shape a child’s personality, aspirations and dreams.
  • a growing body of scientific data tells us that a brain under chronic stress is a brain that performs less well.
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  • Several years ago, a mother wrote an article in the Boston paper, stating that her twins were in pre-med in college and loved it because they "had so much more free time than in high school." I
  • Why not simply eliminate all homework on non-school nights, including weekends, holidays and school breaks, so that these hours can be filled, instead, with the passions and pursuits of our children’s and families’ choosing?
  • selors. She signed up for all the available AP and honors courses at her high school and performed well. She didn’t flinch when homework meant getting five or six hours of sleep a night before “waking up and repeating the cycle all over again.” Haley used to joke, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” On
  • Kristina (Kris) Peachey (AAS/NZAS) on 17 May 12
     
    Still thinking about our daytime programs and our expectations of out of class work. Are we killing the desire and ability to learn?
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