On 2/02/2014 10:03 AM, Bianca Gibson wrote:
On 2 February 2014 08:07, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au <mailto:andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>> wrote:
Teachers are required to make it a priority, in order to give the school "a good reputation", to provide specific training towards getting excellent NAPLAN results and identifying students for exclusion if those students won't benefit this cause. That is, they teach how to do NAPLAN, but not so much in other areas of the curriculum that are not so heavily judged and therefore won't reflect on the teachers or the school itself!!!!!
They are pushed to prioritise NAPLAN. Doesn't mean they all do so.
Yes, but NAPLAN is seasonal too, so it doesn't happen all year round, although those teachers that do prioritize for NAPLAN, well that seems to be the be all and end of at that time. Cheers A.