What In Tarnation?!?!? In the Classroom

MAP (Missouri Assessment Program) started today for my building. Last year I wrote some entries (1, 2, 3) for this blog about what giving the test is like. On a whim, I e-mailed it out to teachers in my building. Much to my surprise, they were a great hit and got e-mailed out to other buildings within the district and then even out of district in some cases. Now there is an expectation that I would be doing a repeat performance again this year. My concern is that I would just be repeating myself and that isn’t very funny. So I worked up a little something, something. To up the ante, I added illustrations from Google Image Search. Because of the illustrated format, I went with a PDF rather than just HTML or rich text.

So click here to read my first entry of 2008 (PDF). I hope it isn’t too much of a retread.

In other standardized test news. We received news today the third grade Wyman landed in the top ten school in Missouri for schools our size! The kids last year did a bang up job and now we get to bask in that a little bit. Here is the official announcement from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, also in PDF form. Bottom of page 2 and 3. My school’s full name is Col. John B. Wyman. We ranked in both Communication Arts and Math. I was stunned.

Well enough jibber jabber.

Class dismissed!