Online Standardized Testing Requires DATA ENTRY SKILLS.
Does your 2nd, 3rd or 4th grader have DATA ENTRY SKILLS?
Do you have DATA ENTRY SKILLS?
Find out why this matters.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
It is Time to Stop the Madness and Revive the 10 Finger Method!
It is more concerned with hand-eye-coordination.
We do know that students who cannot type will be at a disadvantage
when taking the online standardized test. The TEST IS TIMED!
2014 -2015 it begins! Will your child be ready for the test?
For those of you hunt and peck persons of high economic power. Your child will still fail if he/she is not able to get the full import of the writing across in the allotted time. Is this how the Governor and Cerf are leveling the playing field? The actual keyboard has changed very little.
ALL STUDENTS MUST BE TAUGHT TO "type or key" THE 10 FINGER METHOD!
I wanted to be a doctor, but Mrs. Fowler (DMHS guidance) informed me that this was but a pipe dream. She explained that this type of dream was for white boys. She explained that white girls got to be nurses, if lucky. She told me that the only thing that would guarantee me a job was my clerical skill. My typing teacher had already told her that I would make a pleasant and capable secretary. So I learned to type 70 words per minute, no mistakes and to write letters in every style in vogue. I also switched guidance counselors to a white one, Mrs. Franz. (spelling)
I hated Mrs. Fowler a lot of years. I blamed her for destroying my dream. I went back every time I got a degree to show her that I was better than the clerical box that she put me into. Now that I think back on the message that rotund lady forced me to hear, I am sorry that I ever resisted her. The very skills that she forced me to embrace are the skills needed to help our children be successful right now. For anyone who feels that this is off base. Look at the computer keyboard. It is the same. A few keys have been added, that is all. Oh, except that it is way easier to type 70 words per minute w/o errors with spell check. There is no spell check on the TEST.
That playing field may be more level than one might imagine. Get behind your school districts, your community libraries and community centers. We are playing catch up. Children must learn to type. Children of all economic backgrounds. Rich kids who do well in school and can't type. Hello. It is a timed test. It is a proven fact that the 10 finger method is faster and more dependable than the hunt and peck. Do you feel the bumps disappearing and the playing field leveling out?
It would not hurt to teach them a little keyboard history in the process. The computer keyboard and their smartphones all originated in the same place. We have some fantastic teaching moments ahead. What are we going to do with them?
Failing test scores are closing schools all over
America.
We do know that students who cannot type will be at a disadvantage
when taking the online standardized test. The TEST IS TIMED!
2014 -2015 it begins! Will your child be ready for the test?
For those of you hunt and peck persons of high economic power. Your child will still fail if he/she is not able to get the full import of the writing across in the allotted time. Is this how the Governor and Cerf are leveling the playing field? The actual keyboard has changed very little.ALL STUDENTS MUST BE TAUGHT TO "type or key" THE 10 FINGER METHOD!
I wanted to be a doctor, but Mrs. Fowler (DMHS guidance) informed me that this was but a pipe dream. She explained that this type of dream was for white boys. She explained that white girls got to be nurses, if lucky. She told me that the only thing that would guarantee me a job was my clerical skill. My typing teacher had already told her that I would make a pleasant and capable secretary. So I learned to type 70 words per minute, no mistakes and to write letters in every style in vogue. I also switched guidance counselors to a white one, Mrs. Franz. (spelling)
I hated Mrs. Fowler a lot of years. I blamed her for destroying my dream. I went back every time I got a degree to show her that I was better than the clerical box that she put me into. Now that I think back on the message that rotund lady forced me to hear, I am sorry that I ever resisted her. The very skills that she forced me to embrace are the skills needed to help our children be successful right now. For anyone who feels that this is off base. Look at the computer keyboard. It is the same. A few keys have been added, that is all. Oh, except that it is way easier to type 70 words per minute w/o errors with spell check. There is no spell check on the TEST.
That playing field may be more level than one might imagine. Get behind your school districts, your community libraries and community centers. We are playing catch up. Children must learn to type. Children of all economic backgrounds. Rich kids who do well in school and can't type. Hello. It is a timed test. It is a proven fact that the 10 finger method is faster and more dependable than the hunt and peck. Do you feel the bumps disappearing and the playing field leveling out?
It would not hurt to teach them a little keyboard history in the process. The computer keyboard and their smartphones all originated in the same place. We have some fantastic teaching moments ahead. What are we going to do with them?
Failing test scores are closing schools all over
America.
The People's Town Hall Meeting on
Public Education Issues & Solutions
February 23, 2013
11 am - 1 am
Community Baptist Church
224 First St.
Englewood, New Jersey
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Call Your Local RAC for Important Information
Click here for the list of NJ Priority, Focus, and Reward Schools
The list below are the RACs for our area. Any questions? Use the telephone number.
Why do we need them? We are a FOCUS School.
Regional Achievement Center
Serving Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Sussex and Warren Counties
Telephone #: (973) 569-2126 ● Fax #: (973) 754-0657
Scott Rixford.………..…...……….Executive
Spring Banks…………………………Network Turnaround Officer
Pat DiGiaimo……………………….Intervention
Ron Karsen…………………..… State Turnaround Officer
Dr. Albert Mussad……Instructional Specialist (Secondary Literacy)
Joanna Santana……………………Instructional Specialist (ELL)
Definitions for priority, focus and reward schools.
The list below are the RACs for our area. Any questions? Use the telephone number.
Why do we need them? We are a FOCUS School.
Regional Achievement Center
Serving Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Sussex and Warren Counties
Telephone #: (973) 569-2126 ● Fax #: (973) 754-0657
Scott Rixford.………..…...……….Executive
Spring Banks…………………………Network Turnaround Officer
Pat DiGiaimo……………………….Intervention
Ron Karsen…………………..… State Turnaround Officer
Dr. Albert Mussad……Instructional Specialist (Secondary Literacy)
Joanna Santana……………………Instructional Specialist (ELL)
Definitions for priority, focus and reward schools.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Save Our Schools
ATTENTION New Jerseysans: Englewood is over 70% free and reduced lunch. It is only one of the school districts that will be affected by projected cuts in state funding to high need districts. Newark, Paterson, Jersey City, Passaic, Camden, Asbury Park, and Garfield to name a few will also feel the cuts.
Please fill out this simple form and tell your legislators to stop Commissioner Cerf's plan to cut state aid that will significantly affect low income children, children learning English, children that are homeless, children impacted by disasters, children who are migrants, children who are neglected and delinquent, and special needs children. Simply fill in your zip code and click submit. (the form requires those seldom used last 4 digits of the zip code) The children desperately need the power of your voice.
Click the link below and input your zip code including the last 4 digits
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50831/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9288
Please fill out this simple form and tell your legislators to stop Commissioner Cerf's plan to cut state aid that will significantly affect low income children, children learning English, children that are homeless, children impacted by disasters, children who are migrants, children who are neglected and delinquent, and special needs children. Simply fill in your zip code and click submit. (the form requires those seldom used last 4 digits of the zip code) The children desperately need the power of your voice.
Click the link below and input your zip code including the last 4 digits
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50831/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9288
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