It’s that time of the year again... It happens from the middle of January just about to the middle of March. No, it’s not a holiday, not a vacation time, but the time when schools frantically prepare students for the PSSA test. It is a time when educators feel they must forget about field trips, hands on experiments, history, geography, and sometimes even recess. The majority of the time is spent on studying exclusively for one thing, and one thing only- The PSSA TEST! This infuriating approach is called “teaching to the test”. Does anyone have a story on the "prep process"? How is it done in your school?
