Chalk Talk - Creative Things to do While Actively Monitoring

Ever wonder what it's like for a teacher during testing when he or she has to "actively monitor" students?


Today, we finally made it through another round of testing this year. At least for now.

Yesterday I wrote about a flaw of mine that students usually discover during testing season. Today, I want to share with you a post I wrote years ago about what I discovered about my students during testing, one day, while actively monitoring for over an hour!

You can read about it here.

Happy Friday. We made it!

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