Teachers' Thoughts During State Testing

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  • čas přidán 16. 05. 2023
  • What really goes on in a teacher's mind when actively monitoring State Testing...
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  • @MuzerlinaV
    @MuzerlinaV Před rokem +106

    There’s nothing like watching kids just randomly circling multiple answers ‘cause “it made a pretty pattern.” 🤦🏽‍♀️ (Kindergarteners)

  • @saraking9002
    @saraking9002 Před rokem +56

    People at the state level should have to administer these tests at least every two years to remember what it’s like to keep middle schoolers on task and quiet for eternity….

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @saraking9002
      I don’t see the point of state testing. I don’t even consider it to be a true evaluation of the student’s grown and success. It’s designed to be way too difficult for the age and development of the kid.
      The people who design it don’t genuinely care about the kids, they can about the ratings and how test scores make them look. There’s more important things than test scores.

    • @brettstafford9665
      @brettstafford9665 Před 6 dny

      @@amylee8969no I think students have just fallen behind.

  • @onceuponanexploration6048

    There are so many tests at our school that even the test chairperson is overwhelmed. There weren't enough pencils, or booklets, the air conditioner broke, and there was no one to give us bathroom breaks. There were multiple computers malfunctioning for more than an hour before they finally started working. At one point it stormed so hard I thought the power would go out. Some kids were sopping wet to come touch the pristine essay booklets. Multiple kids were late, absent, missing, etc. A few teachers were absent or in class completely sick thanks to the "change of seasons". Clueless substitutes, a shifting lunch schedule, and no one knows where to go after testing are the starting points to "the rest of the school day". Just the mother of all messes.

    • @mariawaugh-clayton7978
      @mariawaugh-clayton7978 Před rokem +2

      So what you do not is teach, and next year teach as well as you can. Don't bother caring about tests because they don't matter. Work on teaching. They will threaten and no one cares. Then retire and do something cool like me!

    • @onceuponanexploration6048
      @onceuponanexploration6048 Před rokem +1

      @@mariawaugh-clayton7978 The school performs well, but as you can imagine there are AP tests, graduation required tests, dual enrollment, etc.

  • @Shakespearelover1717
    @Shakespearelover1717 Před rokem +51

    The officious jerks who make the rules should have to monitor state tests. Actually, the whole mess should be abolished.

    • @djthereplay
      @djthereplay Před rokem +1

      #Exactly

    • @stephanieiuliano1654
      @stephanieiuliano1654 Před rokem +3

      It's a waste of money.

    • @djthereplay
      @djthereplay Před rokem +1

      @@stephanieiuliano1654
      I'll put it this way.
      Speaking from when I was a student and I had to do state testing it was basing a student's GPA or ability to move up to higher education on one thing, a test score.
      #AbolishTesting

    • @stephanieiuliano1654
      @stephanieiuliano1654 Před rokem +1

      Speaking as a retired teacher, I saw lots of cheating. Also a couple of teachers I knew graded the testing from other states and were told to grade higher or lower if they graded differently than the norm.

    • @cashwalk7253
      @cashwalk7253 Před rokem +2

      I agree-you make it, you implement it.

  • @thelawofficeofjbhilliard8666

    The wobble stool "revelation" got me... 🤣🤣🤣

    • @1PrayerWarrior4
      @1PrayerWarrior4 Před rokem +4

      Literally the first thought I had when I first sat on a wobble stool. 😂

    • @PepperandIvy
      @PepperandIvy Před rokem +2

      Same😂😂😂😂

  • @MsLazyllama101
    @MsLazyllama101 Před rokem +11

    I had a student "finish" in less than 10 minutes today. I'm so excited for his parents to get his results....

  • @beverlyh3822
    @beverlyh3822 Před rokem +28

    I walk around until I get so dizzy I almost fall over. Where I teach we cannot even look at their tests, we're supposed to make sure they are on the proper test, that they are doing it, but we can't look at the test. I hit 10,000 steps by 9:30. I love when I get to test in a room with a window so I get a change of scenery once in awhile. I also spend a lot of time hoping I will not need to go the bathroom before they get done because I don't want the hall monitor to judge me. We test on computers and I had students falling asleep before I started the instructions.

    • @kamy8130
      @kamy8130 Před rokem +1

      We cannot look at the tests either. We also cannot sit down AT ALL while the students are testing.
      Desks are usually in groups, but we had to separate them for testing. My room is so small that it didn't leave much room for walking. I'm clumsy and uncoordinated, so I bumped into desks multiple times each day circulating and monitoring. I have the bruises to show for it.🤦‍♀️🙄😄

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci

      @beverlyh3822
      Yeah it’s not fun. And it’s quite sad to think that everything teachers are expected to do is to prepare for state testing, which means the school bored doesn’t even care about the students or their growth and development. They just treat students as a test score to get ratings rather than what’s truly best for them.
      America knows very well that many kids are behind grade level but still insist on administering a test that’s on or above grade level and are expected to do well. That’s setting them up for failure.

    • @Rivkahyanna1
      @Rivkahyanna1 Před 2 měsíci

      I shamelessly take a “bathroom” break halfway through . . . I’ll take the judgment, I just need to SIT DOWN and look at something else for a minute (even if it’s just the stall door in the bathroom).

  • @carenlettofsky3045
    @carenlettofsky3045 Před rokem +19

    I tell my kids that if they actually try on the State test AND make it through the whole day without having to be kicked out for being disruptive, I will give them a bag of Pop-Tarts. "The WHOLE bag? Both of them?!" is usually their reaction. Works wonders! BTW - Nice singing voice!

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci

      State tests don’t prepare kids for the real world. They prepare kids to create scores to make the STATE look good and get more money!

  • @XiaVhani
    @XiaVhani Před rokem +18

    As a substitute, I can relate. (I have proctored in my past. It was fun).

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci +1

      On the bright side, I got a lot of steps in and calories burnt according to my smart watch🤷🏽‍♀️.
      I miss state testing when I was in middle school. We had 12:30 dismissal that whole week👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼.

  • @mieander
    @mieander Před rokem +10

    One of the reasons I didn't go back for a second year teaching was that a fellow teacher (I think under the direction of administration) gave me a "practice" test to help prepare my students for the state test. I was horrified when the test was passed out and I had been given the actual test, my students had of course gone through the test with me and knew the answers. Not only did I feel forced into being dishonest, I also felt pretty stupid. Did they really think I was that bad of a teacher my students couldn't possibly pass on their own? Gee, thanks. Luckily I had other skills and a backup career to move to.

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci

      I agree. States especially today, require 4th graders so master 8th grader level material. And teachers are so drained and preparing kids for it that there’s no more time for any meaningful learning and engagement to actually prepare kids for the real world.

  • @paulaortega3756
    @paulaortega3756 Před rokem +6

    My job during state testing, as a specialist, was to step in and monitor for teachers who needed a bathroom break. They were SO glad to see me!😏

  • @zaihoward2777
    @zaihoward2777 Před rokem +7

    I call testing, which I did today for 3 hours, watching kids struggle and get slightly older. 😂

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Před rokem +20

    I once proctored middle school tests for an absent colleague. I normally teach primary grades, and it was awful. The only thing that got tested, imo, was everyone’s patience and my bladder control. One boy was obviously unable to handle the material, yet he had no IEP, no accommodations, and I wasn’t allowed to help him other than to tell him to take his best guess. He couldn’t read the material or the questions, and I noticed he’d filled in a capital “O” in one of the questions instead of the choices below it. About half way through I noticed he seemed to be working diligently, so I took a stroll past his desk. He’d filled most of the page with some pretty good anime art!
    Another kid handed in his test booklet with the first two pages done, but nothing else. He’d been working, it seemed, the entire time. I looked anyway at his work. Of the first 20 questions, computation, he had correct answers for 16, and a half dozen sheets of scrap paper filled with dots, circles, x’s. He’d apparently done them counting by ones. At the bottom of the last page he’d written “FUK DIS SIHT.”

  • @karagreenberg4520
    @karagreenberg4520 Před rokem +6

    I always joke with my students that as boring as taking state tests are, at least they have something to do during that time. My only "task" is to watch the clock so I know when to give them accurate time checks.

    • @Rivkahyanna1
      @Rivkahyanna1 Před 2 měsíci

      I’ve said the same to my students!

  • @munimathbypeterfelton6251

    The only thing standardized tests prove is that all that students learn in school over the 180-day year is merely made for exams. How dare they try to apply their knowledge to everyday life! 🙄

    • @saturn6563
      @saturn6563 Před rokem +2

      Ah yes, as if everything above elementary school and maybe middle school taught is useful in life 😂

    • @munimathbypeterfelton6251
      @munimathbypeterfelton6251 Před rokem +1

      Only somebody living on your planet would think that learning is useless.

    • @saturn6563
      @saturn6563 Před rokem +2

      @@munimathbypeterfelton6251 An eagle lives on my planet

    • @munimathbypeterfelton6251
      @munimathbypeterfelton6251 Před rokem +1

      @@saturn6563 A bald eagle?

    • @saturn6563
      @saturn6563 Před rokem

      @@munimathbypeterfelton6251 Yes, unfortunately it has died and has been reincarnated in Jupiter’s red spot. An ant was born on my rings though!

  • @thebalrog2277
    @thebalrog2277 Před rokem +9

    First-year teacher, and this was the single most painful even of the year. I would trade a month of ARDs during my conference than doing that.

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci

      The fact that every thing teachers are expected to do is for state testing. Which means the board of education doesn’t really care about the well-being and growth of students at all. To them, they’re just a test score and access to more money. Sad how the system works.

  • @emilyrothman5869
    @emilyrothman5869 Před rokem +7

    I literally just had testing yesterday. It was the worst, and another thing is, although I hated the teacher I was assigned to, I thought about how bored teachers got. I was able to head home after 80 minutes, yet everyone else was stuck for another 80 minutes. The only reason I was able to leave early is because I am in virtual school. I honestly felt bad for everyone else, as I spent like 20 minutes of that time pacing around in one of the bathroom stalls and staring at the graffiti on the wall. Luckily, I have an IEP because of my ADHD, so I can take as many frequent bathroom breaks as I want during testing, and they can't say no. It's honestly the best part, and is what kept me sane until I finally saw the time was 9:58, and I could leave that hell hole and ride off on my bike back home NEVER looking back.

  • @taylorpalmer894
    @taylorpalmer894 Před rokem +6

    I had a student finish in 4 minutes last week.
    As I joked with everyone: I became a teacher just to administer state tests
    🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

    • @amylee8969
      @amylee8969 Před 8 měsíci

      Yeah it’s basically busy work. They sit still fit about 2 hours to selected random multiple choice answers. Then one week later, forget every single thing they’ve learned for the test cause teachers were forced to cram stuff in their heads at the last minute.

  • @cewe2003
    @cewe2003 Před rokem +8

    I am so glad I teach kindergarten. I just don’t know how I would survive state testing.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 Před rokem

      No state testing for Kindergarten where you teach?

    • @cewe2003
      @cewe2003 Před rokem +3

      @@mariekatherine5238 Well, we very recently (within the last year) started doing MAP testing in Kinder but it only lasts like 20 minutes max for most kiddos and we aren’t required to sit quietly and do nothing while they test. In fact I often test them in small groups while the other minders are doing various activities. It’s nothing like the state testing that the upper grades do.

    • @fatemakarim5054
      @fatemakarim5054 Před rokem

      I don't know how you survive being a kindergarten teacher.

  • @munimathbypeterfelton6251

    For once, a teacher on Bored Teachers is actually bored lol!

  • @enmiles22
    @enmiles22 Před rokem +3

    The urge to not help them is real!!

  • @echognomecal6742
    @echognomecal6742 Před rokem +6

    She gets a plant?! We never got a plant! How come she gets a plant?!!!!
    **contacts union**

  • @AnnaMae41194
    @AnnaMae41194 Před rokem +4

    ngl i was better at tests than any other school work. i always finished very quickly and got good scores.

  • @janmiller1591
    @janmiller1591 Před rokem +6

    I hide a bag of Dove chocolate in the ACT supplies crate.

  • @lovingtheglovedone
    @lovingtheglovedone Před rokem +4

    This was my first year as a test proctor. I was assigned to a 3rd grade class for FIVE days!
    They were zooming in and sliding the screen around with their fingers. Highlighting everything and goofing off. Some sections were 80 mins but some kids were ‘done’ in 10 minutes! Just clicking away!
    Even worse was having to get them to the restroom and back to class in a timely and orderly manner while every single class in the building was going at the same time!
    I was already over it by the time the restroom break was over. Couldn’t have our phones or any electronic devices in the room. I have ADHD and it was pure torture. I can only imagine what the kids were experiencing. They have the attention span of a drunk gnat! 😵‍💫

  • @S.M.214
    @S.M.214 Před rokem +4

    How mean spirited is it for governments to give a standardized test to a child who is not working at grade level and could not possibly pass the test. They prefer to have chosen in tears?

    • @jessamynrising3990
      @jessamynrising3990 Před rokem +1

      My dad taught special ed for 35 years. He only have students for ninety days at a time, but regularly brought his students up 2 or 3 grade levels and reading skills... Until the late 90s to early 2000s when his job became all about preparing them for standardized tests. He described preparing them for a test he knew that three-quarters of them would fail, and watching them completely check out when they realized they did all that hard work for seemingly nothing. It was heartbreaking.

    • @LA-rc7cw
      @LA-rc7cw Před 2 měsíci

      @@jessamynrising3990 I opt my kids out of MCA's I live in MN. My son had massive anxiety issues after taking them through 5th grade. The fast reading per minute they forced down his throat was enough to make him hate reading for enjoyment. He is in 9th grade now and only reads for school and not at all for fun.
      Then it got to the point he would fill it out as fast as he could to get it done. We I have fast-bridge tests 3 times a year in our state and that there is enough to show them where they are at and help adjust. If a teacher can't figure it out off of that and daily time with them something is very wrong with the school and teaching. Our school system is so out dated and not geared to a growing mind and caring for how they develop a healthy relationship with learning. It's very sad to me.

  • @carolwarchol976
    @carolwarchol976 Před rokem +2

    This is so true!

  • @AngelsCanFlyGacha
    @AngelsCanFlyGacha Před měsícem +1

    I have state testing today, im not ready for it, I swear my class ain't even gonna be talking this morning.😂😂😂

  • @DoctorsSong
    @DoctorsSong Před rokem +1

    One thing about SPED, most if not all of our kids' parents wave them taking the test.

  • @jjan-nioak3666
    @jjan-nioak3666 Před rokem

    Omg! I was the testing coordinator for my school this year and I had to do all the makeups! So tiring and boring! We can’t even look at our phones either! Agh.

  • @luckdragongirl
    @luckdragongirl Před rokem

    I teach high school. We give multiple tests throughout the year like PSAT, PreACT, AP, ACT, MAP, state testing, benchmarks, local testing. It's horribly boring. MAP and local isn't too bad because the program we use requires we monitor them on the computer in case they get locked out, so I usually do work during that time.
    For the others, I typically get a song stuck in my head at some point (like how she got the Titanic song stuck in her head). 75% of the time, I get the Imperial March from Star Wars stuck in my head.
    I also play the alphabet game in the testing manual margins. I pick a category and try to do a name of a thing in the category starting with each letter of the alphabet like country names, city names, animals, fruits, boy names, girl names, etc.
    I doodle, in the testing manuals too, naturally.
    I've counted ceiling tiles before.
    I really hate how they tell us how important the tests are, but they never release the test materials (my classes use the local testing for their finals). I just want to see the questions and the percent that got it right. That way, I can know what I need to teach better. Do we get that? Nope. It's just the scores we get back. Zero feedback. If I can't get the questions, give me the standard numbers and how they did on those. The questions (theoretically) have to align to the standards, so that should help. Nope. We basically fly blind here. They take my local test online but still get scratch paper. For chemistry, I can kind of tell what some of the questions were by looking at the scratch paper sometimes. I definitely could tell that the test must have asked them for the chemical formula of iron (II) phosphate. I saw that on about 15 sheets of paper. All 15 had it correct, so that's good. They had a percent composition and molecular formula on there. Those are rarer questions on the chemistry finals, so I was impressed they did both in a 40 question test. Fall version didn't have those as far as I'm aware. Just the spring version (we're on block scheduling here, which is nice since I only have to teach 3 classes a day and get the longer 90 minute planning, but the drawback is you have to go lightning fast since you get less time because traditional classes are 50 minutes instead of 90. It's twice the days too, so they get 100 minutes to our 90 minutes. Still, I prefer block).

  • @davidsmythe7645
    @davidsmythe7645 Před 8 měsíci

    She’s so GREAT!!!!😅😅😅😅

  • @kcc879
    @kcc879 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I remember during my exams as a kid teacher were able to read novels and they just sat down and read their books for the two hours 😂

  • @Rivkahyanna1
    @Rivkahyanna1 Před 2 měsíci

    Don’t forget (at least in Texas) . . . Sitting, looking at the kids’ screens, and having any words at all on the wall during testing is all forbidden; these irregularities would result in the students having to retest and the teacher potentially losing her license.

  • @queenbusick
    @queenbusick Před rokem +5

    I know you want to exaggerate the boredom of testing... But it's much worse!!!! I'm exhausted after testing....

  • @TheAnimeUnlimited
    @TheAnimeUnlimited Před rokem +1

    That what my teachers did past 2 weeks every night i come and clean they told me how bored it was

  • @jennagrigsby9956
    @jennagrigsby9956 Před rokem

    You have a beautiful voice

  • @tindee3052
    @tindee3052 Před rokem +1

    😂 honestly I think I would just be eating during the exams.

  • @alicial4857
    @alicial4857 Před rokem

    Not even a teacher, and I can relate so hard to that.

  • @briannalarmore4759
    @briannalarmore4759 Před rokem

    We HAVE to have 2 proctors for each room the test is being taken in. (Subs aren't "trained" to help with testing.) OUR SCHOOL ONLY HAS 10 FULL-TIME TEACHERS! And the aides that could help, are often covering those students becuase they test in another room. Add in senior trip (there's 2 more gone), testing atudents THAT HAVENT EVEN TAKING MY CLASS, and tests that are not focused on the content learned in the class but "science in general." (Biology student will not know how to have to answer Chem questions! Get real!!) The whole thing is a flop! High test scores come from students ability to adapt on the fly and whether they care enough about their teacher / school to actually give a damn.

  • @markduffy5773
    @markduffy5773 Před rokem +1

    Some truth here. State tests are the worst.

  • @jenniferboyd3317
    @jenniferboyd3317 Před rokem +2

    100%

  • @Cat-dw3wi
    @Cat-dw3wi Před rokem +3

    Been there done that

  • @dragonwhisperer1571
    @dragonwhisperer1571 Před rokem +3

    You're good at acting xD

    • @mrsmack5808
      @mrsmack5808 Před rokem +1

      Her singing voice tho 😍

    • @dragonwhisperer1571
      @dragonwhisperer1571 Před rokem +1

      @@mrsmack5808 IKR? Like bro your acting career is waiting out there for you while you watch this kid pick his nose instead of doing the test

  • @ninaschvartz1110
    @ninaschvartz1110 Před 5 měsíci

    how do u think kids feel sitting in hard chairs ,bored , trying to focus , hungry cause school breakfast is not good . having to wake up early and be tired while taking a test

  • @aileenwallace7549
    @aileenwallace7549 Před rokem

    Chance for a game of invigilator pacman?

  • @gailjohnston9683
    @gailjohnston9683 Před 3 měsíci

    Yep 😂

  • @skipfilgo2042
    @skipfilgo2042 Před rokem

    The only test question should be "What is Google's URL?"

  • @2112jp
    @2112jp Před rokem

    She’s looking at the questions, hmm…

  • @bobkarafin
    @bobkarafin Před 4 měsíci

    Pull out your phone and do some Facebook!

  • @robertcourtemanche9185
    @robertcourtemanche9185 Před rokem +1

    You know you shouldn't look at the questions or ever discuss the questions with anyone - ever. I mean never ever.

  • @thetorturedpoetsdepartment111

    Yall get sna k breaks?????????? lucky,