Virginia Standards Of Learning - HamptonRoads.com SchoolZone The standards of learning are the cornerstone of Virginia s education system . Special Reports 2002 test results Region s schools make gains on (sols) http://home.hamptonroads.com/schoolzone/schoolsol/search.cfm
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Curriculumn And SOLS Curriculum an (sols). Curriculum and Virginia standards of learning. fuzzy_bears A team of special education teachers, classroom teachers, http://lc.loudoun.k12.va.us/schools/roundhill/curriculumn.html
Extractions: Your browser has JavaScript turned off. You will be able to view the contents of this web site if you turn JavaScript on. Open your browser preferences and enable JavaScript. You do not have to restart your browser or your computer after you enable JavaScript. Simply click the RELOAD button. LCPS Information LCPS School Directory Round Hill Elementary School Our School Contact Staff Policy Handbook Standards of Learning ... Email Webmaster Curriculum and Virginia Standards of Learning Round Hill Elementary School was fully accredited by the Commonwealth of Virginia. To be fully accredited a school must have a score of 70 on all four content area (English, mathematics, science, history) SOL Test. Round Hill exceeded all Standards of Accreditation, including passing all Standards of Learning (SOL) Tests for the previous year. Round Hill provides a challenging academic program based on Virginia Standards of Learning. The curriculum in grades K-5 includes Reading, English, Science, Social Sciences and History, Math and Technology. Specialists provide instruction in Art, Music, Physical Education, and Library to students in grades 1-5. The Kindergarten students receive library instruction once a week. The Specialists follow curriculum objectives outlined by the Virginia Standards of Learning. Students in grades K-5 visit a computer lab twice a week for an integrated technology lesson. Classroom teachers and specialists are responsible for planning and implementing the instruction in each curriculum area. The teachers work in grade level teams to plan instruction based on the Virginia Standards of Learning and Loudoun County guidelines.
FETConnections - Winter 2000 The Strands indicate what standards of learning ((sols)) and additional expectations This component of the project allows the teachers to create a test, http://www.fetc.org/fetcon/2001-Fall/badolato.htm
Extractions: Jennifer K. Badolato Project ECOLE is an Electronic Community Of Learning and Education. It is Manassas Park City School System's curriculum in an automated format created by Virginia Computer Institute. Together, we have constructed a web page format for our curriculum and have linked the curriculum to the National Standards and the Virginia Standards of Learning. We have three different webs: a Kindergarten through fifth grade web, a sixth through eighth grade web, and a ninth through twelfth grade web. This project is unique in that it is the only automated curriculum in Virginia. An impressive tool in the project is the 1,500 teacher-created activities designed to teach the National Standards which are linked to the Virginia Standards of Learning. The activities are done in a lesson plan format complete with topic, description, a materials list, directions, scoring rubric, extended activities and resource list. If there are any necessary worksheets, they have been scanned in and are accessible through Adobe Acrobat. Project Partners Explore the Weather The Project Partners component allows the teachers in our school system to work collaboratively on a topic with teachers from other school systems. Through e-groups, the teachers and students can communicate over the Internet and simultaneously explore a topic. This is a very exciting component of Project ECOLE and expands the scope of learning for students and teachers all over the world.
Frontline: Testing Our Schools: Testing: In The Classroom | PBS children learn these (sols) standards of learning, that they pass this test . You know, I ve been a great teacher for 27 years, and now the (sols) are http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/theme.html
Extractions: var loc = "../../../"; In the course of making "Testing Our Schools," correspondent John Merrow and producer John Tulenko interviewed teachers and school administrators who are grappling with the realities of testing and its effects for better and worse on teaching and learning in the classroom. Here are excerpts from some of those interviews, with educators in Virginia and California, in March 2001. The Mood Inside the Schools Teaches kindergarten in Richmond, Va. ... This year has been the most stressful year for me and for my team, and I think for many teachers, because there has been so much pressure from on top, that you have to make sure that these children learn these SOLs [Standards of Learning], that they pass this test. And we're doing lesson plans, OK? Detailed lesson plans. We're making games, we're correcting all those papers that you see in my file. We're not only doing this during the day; ... we have to take work home. People forget that we have families and we have a life of our own. So on weekends, we're doing work. I'm up sometimes 'til 2 a.m. trying to do stuff that will help these children learn. ... I am not against assessment. ... I am against the methods they are using to test our children. I am against the pressure and the stress that is put on us for getting children to master these SOLs at the same rate of speed when everyone knows that all children do not [learn] the same way or at the same rate. ...
VEA : Articles Archives : Detail The (sols) Are a Big Part of learning, But Is There More to a Good Education? standards has set administrators and teachers scrambling to find better ways http://www.veaweteach.org/articles_archives_detail.asp?ContentID=361
Patrick Welsh Like all her classmates, she took Virginia s standards of learning (SOL) exams in TC Chemistry teacher Joel Kaplan says that the (sols) have to be dumbed http://www.lessonplans.com/readwelsh2.htm
Extractions: Sunday, October 22, 2003 Christina Walker is a senior at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., who will be attending Virginia Commonwealth University in the fall. Like all her classmates, she took Virginia's Standards of Learning (SOL) exams in the spring semester every year of her high school careear. When she received an "advanced proficiency" rating in chemistry last year, she coundn't help being pleased - and highly amused. After all, she had gotten a "C" in her chemistry class, hardly a mark of "advanced" proficience. But in fact, Walker says whe knows lots of kids who actually failed certain courses, yet passed the SOLs in those same courses " with flying colors." If that's true, those's something seriously amiss here. The SOLs are supposed to measure student achievement and raise school standards. Yet there's clearly a discrepancy between actual achievement and the scores students are getting on these state exams. Nevertheless, over the past five years, Alexandria school officials have joined the state Department of Education in trying to convince the public that an academic revolution is taking place because more and more students are passing Virginia's SOLs. No one sees through the charade more clearly than many of the seniors who are graduating from T.C. Williams "The SOLs are based on a simplistic, paint-by-numbers view of learning," says 17-yearj-old Molly Grove, who will attend Oberlin College in Ohio this fall. "Any decent student should be able to handle them easily."
Number 2 Pencil: One Teacher's Response To The SOLs A Virginia teacher blames the (sols) (standards of learning) exams for his The idea behind the (sols) is simple Lay out what kids should know, test them on http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/archives/001910.html
Extractions: Kimberly's take on testing and education reform Main A Virginia teacher blames the SOLs (Standards of Learning) exams for his decision to leave the public school system Standards of Learning were introduced to make education better. But in my experience, they had the opposite effect. The intense pressure to raise test scores eventually squeezed the life out of school, both for my kids and for me... The idea behind the SOLs is simple: Lay out what kids should know, test them on it and then hold the schools accountable for their scores...Beginning this June, students who do not pass the high school tests won't graduate; beginning in 2007, schools that do not have a 70 percent passing rate on the exams will risk losing state accreditation. From the start, the get-tough tests rubbed me the wrong way. Implicit in the notion of "accountability" are the assumptions that: (a) education is a product, the input and output of which can be standardized and measured; and (b) it's high time for teachers and schools to quit slacking and get to work. It's very hard for me to imagine what education is if there's no observable change in the student. Just because a test is standardized doesn't mean that something other than reading and math can be measured with it. And some teachers have been spending an awful lot of time slacking, though they call it "child-centered education" while others call it "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
University Of Virginia Experts Database K12 Education standards of learning ((sols)) Topics standards of learning ((sols)) ,Student Assessment , Testing , Virginia standards of learning http://www.virginia.edu/facultyexperts/?root_id=2418
VA-SOL-News And Events Archives Luck Stone is funding a project specifically grounded in the (sols) and focusingon Virginia The Virginia standards of learning Training Initiative http://www.knowledge.state.va.us/main/news/archives.htm
Extractions: Mrs. Gilmore, the keynote speaker at the luncheon, took attendees on an online tour of Commonwealth of Knowledge, which helps teachers incorporate Virginia's Standards of Learning into their curriculum. " We are fortunate to have a corporate partner like AT&T that shares our vision and commitment to education," said Mrs.Gilmore.
SOL Tests Create New Dropouts (washingtonpost.com) His sole reason? The Virginia standards of learning tests. In some cases,teachers said it wasn t the standards or even the tests that drove them from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6128-2001Jul16.html
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Education Teachers ... E-Mail This Article By Liz Seymour Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 17, 2001; Page A01 Ace math teacher Bruce Snyder was racking up the accolades. He was a nominee for Loudoun teacher of the year, and, annually, his calculus students scored so high on the Advanced Placement test that School Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III singled him out in a speech before 2,000 teachers. But last month, Snyder left public education to teach this fall at the private Georgetown Day School in the District. His sole reason? The Virginia Standards of Learning tests. Bruce Snyder, a calculus teacher at Park View High School, left Loudoun County to teach in the District because of the constraints placed by "teaching to the test." (Larry Kobelka - For The Washington Post)
Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) Under pressure to improve his students standards of learning scores, The ideabehind the (sols) is simple Lay out what kids should know, test them on it http://susanohanian.org/outrage_fetch.php?id=133
Extractions: February/March 2002 It is the intent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to include students with disabilities in the Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessment Program. School leaders who communicate this message to their staff members clearly are more likely to see higher access rates. To assist students with disabilities, the Virginia Department of Education provides certain testing accommodations that meet standard and non-standard conditions. Decisions about participation in the testing program and how a student with a disability is assessed should be made independently for each content area. The IEP Team makes the decisions on the need for and the selection of accommodations for students with disabilities. This checklist may be used by school division personnel long before the assessment dates arrive. Yes No 1. The IEP Teams are addressing assessment needs.
JLARC Report Summary principals, and teachers generally indicate a belief that the (sols) have been The standards of learning have had a profound impact on Virginias http://jlarc.state.va.us/Summary/Rpt305/SchPerfm.htm
Extractions: The study had two major research components. The first part was a quantitative analysis of the measurable factors that are associated with Standards of Learning (SOL) test results in schools and school divisions. The other major research component was a qualitative review of schools and school divisions. The primary purposes of this review were to examine the challenges to achieving academic success faced by schools and the best practices used by schools that have had success. JLARC staff also considered other issues related to school performance in conducting the study. These included the impact of the SOLs and of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, and the issue of on-time graduation and dropout rates. Six major findings result from this review: Over the course of several years of SOL implementation, SOL test scores and pass rates have increased substantially.
Mark Warner On Education Supports standards of learning, but not tests Like any new system, the SOLsneed constant oversight and refinement to make sure they are effective. http://ontheissues.org/Governor/Mark_Warner_Education.htm
Extractions: Mark supports high standards and accountability, and Virginias new Standards of Learning are meant to provide that. Like any new system, the SOLs need constant oversight and refinement to make sure they are effective. Mark generally supports the existing SOL standards that outline the minimum grade level and subject matter objectives students are expected to learn. He has some concerns about the history and social studies tests. While Mark supports teachers being accountable for teaching the Standards of Learning, and students being accountable for learning, he knows that often a single test is not the best way to measure such accountability. Mark believes that teachers shouldnt be held accountable for things they cannot control. Virginias standards should be tools to improve the education of our children - not clubs with which to punish schools. Mark also believes that the SOL system should promote real learning and analytical problem solving skills, not just rote memorization. Source: Campaign web site, MarkWarner2001.org/issues Nov 6, 2001
Richmond.com - Feature Story: 'A Decade Later ' For It s standards of learning time. All the kids are focused and excited, said The (sols) test students in grades three, five and eight, as well as nine http://www.richmond.com/education/output.aspx?Article_ID=3661788&Vertical_ID=11&
Default This site has been designed to assist with the teaching and learning of theVirginia State Computer/Technology standards of learning to be mastered by the http://www.manassas.k12.va.us/Dean/Class/Etherington/technology/default1.htm
Extractions: Welcome! This site has been designed to assist with the teaching and learning of the Virginia State Computer/Technology Standards of Learning to be mastered by the end of grade five. The technology terms and quizzes included on these pages incorporate these requirements with additional information for the more advanced, technology-minded student. Although the Resources page is divided into sections labeled "Mostly for Students" and "Especially for Teachers," both students and teachers are invited and encouraged to explore all of the links in both sections. Students are especially encouraged to view the spreadsheet and database PowerPoint presentations listed in the teacher resources. Binary Bits and Bytes - From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Math Teacher Link, learn about bits, bytes, and the binary code by interactively turning switches on and off. Technology Terms Look up over 140 technology terms in six different categories. Each word is defined, explained, and linked to an online glossary. Many include pictures and graphics. Print three technology spelling and vocabulary lists complete with related activities. Students will enjoy completing the crossword puzzles, configured words, word searches, word scrambles, and practice spelling tests.
The Standard Report News 70 percent or higher on English, Math, Science and History standards ofLearning (SOL) tests. During the (sols), he has more time to take this test. http://www.thestandardreport.com/news/spring05/stories/nclb.html
A Dinner Discussion With Dr. Daniel Domenech of the Virginia standards of learning ((sols)), the state academic standards, Children have different learning styles; therefore, teachers must http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/1999/db061599.htm
Extractions: Dr. Daniel Domenech, Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), provided his thoughts on education reform, the process of change, and the implementation of the Virginia Standards of Learning to a group of education policymakers on Capitol Hill. FCPS is the 12 th largest school system in the United States and consists of 234 schools and centers with 157,000 students. The system has approximately 40 percent minority students with approximately 20 percent on free and reduced price lunch. The average SAT score for FCPS is 1095; at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology it is 1450. But the overall number for the County is misleading: while the upper and middle-income (generally white) students are achieving at high levels, there are large clusters of poor (generally minority) students who are failing. The demographics of Fairfax County are no different than those of the District of Columbia or New York City. The SOLs did demonstrate, however, a discrepancy in achievement between majority and minority students. Domenech decided to use the SOL tests as a way to determine which schools needed the most help in ensuring high academic achievement for all students. He said he wanted to instill an attitude of equal
Untitled Document Using a standardized test to measure how much a child has learned is like director of educations lying about that states standards of learning ((sols)). http://www.npatterson.net/standardizedtesting.html
Extractions: Using a standardized test to measure how much a child has learned is like evaluating a swimmer's performance by observing her washing her hands. Say NO to High Stakes Tests Nancy Patterson's Home Page Fair Test Assessment Reform Network New Democracy ... Washington Assessment Revolt This site is maintained by Nancy G. Patterson Last updated: July 18, 2001 NATIONAL TEST RESISTANCE GROWS [Reprinted from the February 2001 issue of Substance. Subscriptions to Substance are available for $16 per year from Substance, 5132 W. Berteau, Chicago, IL 60641] By Susan Ohanian As a longtime seventh-grade teacher who is intimately familiar with an atmosphere of ongoing crisis and impending doom, Im not often overcome by apocalyptic imaginings. But the arrival of two officers of the law from Gwinnett County, Georgia, on our doorstep in rural Vermont did get my attention. The cops threatened my extradition for a felony, punishable by five years in jail and a $50,000 fine. Ive seen cantaloupes smaller than the badge packed by the cop who told me my link to the felony is that I live five miles from the post office from which a high-stakes Gwinnett County test, written by CTB/McGraw-Hill, was mailed to the Georgia media. Go figure. Gwinnett County, Georgia, isnt desperate to raise average test scores, which are pretty darned good already. This affluent suburban Atlanta district, which enrolls 110,300 students in its public schools, is the showcase of Gov. Roy Barnes plan for raising school standards statewide. It is the first district in Georgia to institute high-stakes tests. Even so, the Georgia media have shown no interest in commenting on the loony test questions used to decide whether students pass or fail a grade. Maybe journalists think it appropriate for fourth-graders to be interrogated about the socio/political/economic effects of the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin or whether one is more likely to find information about the history of pretzels in a newspaper or an encyclopedia.
