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SAT stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test. It is a three-hour, primarily multiple-choice test that measures verbal and mathematical reasoning skills of the prospect student. It is an aptitude test designed to test the intellectual ability of a student. It is administered seven times a year — usually in October, November, December, January, March, May and June — on Saturday mornings.  The dates for taking the exam are already fixed & hence it requires a consideration preparation schedule. SAT scores are quite significant for securing admission at undergraduate  level.

Why SAT?

Students aspiring to obtain an undergraduate deSATe in any discipline from a University in America need to take this test. The SAT does not expect you to have any specialized knowledge of business or any other specific area. Nor does it seek to measure honors or achievements in any walk of life. SAT is a standard way of measuring a student’s ability to do college-level work. Because courses and grading standards vary widely from school to school, scores on standardized tests, like the SAT, help colleges compare a student’s academic achievements with those of students from different schools. The only job of SAT is to rate and se SAT gate all undergraduate aspirants on the basis of their scholastic skills, primarily in Mathematics and English. All test takers should note that the SAT is entirely in English and that all instructions are provided in English. The SAT as opposed to most other international tests is a PBT (Paper Based Test) and is entirely objective in nature.

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We have all heard that when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. The introduction of No Child Left Behind has given you a lot of lemons and sometimes you need something a bit stronger than lemonade.

As an educator, you know that No Child Left Behind has had an effect on you. By holding districts and their teachers accountable for meeting education standards, NCLB affects everything you do in the classroom. For just a moment, let’s forget all of the negative impacts, especially considering that it may be working. According to Education Week, a new study shows that test scores are going up.

“The 50-state analysis found that test scores for both “advanced” and “basic” students rose in nearly three-quarters of assessments studied across states and grade levels, a level of progress only slightly lower than that of students reaching proficiency.”

Today, let’s consider the positive impacts of No Child Left Behind for the educator.

No Child Left Behind encourages you to:

Be Creative

With emphasis on standardized, uniform achievement, most of the material your school district gives you is cookie cutter. It is material that is produced for the masses, not the students in your classes. This means that you need to be the source of creativity in your classroom.

You must be creative in order for your students to grasp the material they need to be successful. Since you know what works for your students, you can create and customize materials that will stimulate your students. NCLB pushes for achievement as the bottom line, so your school district will allow you to step outside the box if they want results.

This is your time to go against the grain and do something different. Don’t use the released tests as supplemental material—everyone does. Do something different—be imaginative, innovative and inspirational.

Research

This is an opportunity to seek out knowledge that you consider important to the teaching of your students. Your first step can be researching the most successful methods in your content area or specialization by reading articles, books or web postings by professionals. Since all teachers are now facing the same standards, they are also facing the same challenges. Take advantage of their knowledge and experience.

Research isn’t confined to the library, though. You can also shadow your fellow teachers, test different methods in your own classroom or ask for advice in the TeachHUB.com forums.

Stop Complaining

Since you can’t avoid giving the test, do so with a smile and the confidence that you’ve given your students all that you can to make them successful.

Students will mimic your attitude. If you act like the test is impossible and unfair, so will they. If you rise to the challenge with confidence, so will they.

Ask for Help

Bring in addition classroom assistance. If your school district doesn’t have the money or won’t designate funds for classroom assistance, seek out volunteers. This may be an opportunity to get parents more involved or encourage older students to tutor younger students.

Once you’ve got some help, set a weekly schedule. Make sure they can commit to at least one time per week. Students like structure and your weekly planning will be easier. Also, avoid the temptation to give them something you don’t want to do. Give volunteers something they can handle with ease, perhaps helping one to three students while you oversee the class.

Celebrate Every Success

Celebrate improvement, whether it is big or small. Even if Johnnie still can’t pass the test, celebrate the fact that through both of your dedication and hard work, he made strides and is on the right track. Remember, you are a professional educator, not a superhero.

No Child Left Behind may not be ideal or perfect or even good, but for now, it’s a reality. Until something new comes along to replace it, let NCLB encourage you to take the grapes that fall from the vine early, make champagne and give yourself a toast. Cheers.

Maricia Johns is a freelance writer for TeachHUB.com and K-12 Teacher. TeachHUB.com is a new, online resource center designed by teachers, for teachers and is tailored to address the everyday needs of teachers both inside and outside of the classroom. For more K-12 news, tips and recommendations as well as other K-12 related articles, please visit http://www.TeachHUB.com.

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“I’ve never been good at reading.”
“I can’t help my kids at all with their reading homework.  Reading was always my worst subject.”
“Anything after middle school English, forget it – I’m terrible.”

Have you ever heard a parent utter these statements?  Of course not, because to make a statement such as, “I’m not that good at reading,” is socially unacceptable among the averagely educated, involved parents of school aged children in our society.  Which begs the question of, why then, is it socially acceptable to make such statements about math?  Parents will, almost proudly, say things to me like  “I was terrible at math so I’m not surprised that little David is having so much trouble with math.”  Further, not only is it acceptable to make such a statement, it is practically a badge of honor for some parents when making such a claim.
Would this same parent, proudly, say the same thing to little David’s English or reading teacher, or so proudly wear their ignorance of Reading like a badge of honor? Of course not because it is not socially acceptable to “not be good at” reading.  Why is this the case?  I’m not exactly sure but what I do know is that parents with school-aged children, who were not raised and socialized in our American culture, do not make such claims. Parents who were socialized in Asian, Indian, Caribbean or African cultures just to name a few do not make such claims about themselves or their children’s lack of mathematics ability or aptitude.  This type of thinking in my experience is a uniquely American phenomenon.  And the implication being in all of this is the assumption that a person is either inherently good at math, or not.  Either a person has the illusive “math gene” or not.  
So by extension does this mean there is a reading gene as well?  Why wouldn’t there be?  If there is a math gene, then there must be a reading gene as well.  Perhaps there is, but if this reading gene does, in fact, exist parents do not invoke or acknowledge its existence as readily and as proudly as the reason why little David may not be a good reader.  Not being a good reader is unacceptable in our current educational system and in our society.  Reading is now infused “across the curriculum” as any American teacher knows.  Schools have implemented strategies such as nightly homework reading requirements and the popular 100 book reading challenge as ways to help students improve reading.   When it comes to reading actual practice is the norm as to addressing reading issues not the invocation of genetics.
As a high school math teacher, I have become very weary of hearing the myriad of excuses that parents and students alike make to explain poor math performance.  As with reading, there are two main things that we as a society and we as a collective American educational system need to adopt in order to address the math deficiencies of our students.  First, we need to change our mindset about one’s ability to learn mathematics.  Just as we believe with reading, with math one becomes proficient through practice, time on task, the expectation of success and the belief that learning math is within everyone’s grasp.  
The math gene theory needs to be retired as our national scapegoat regarding our children’s performance in math.  We need to stop giving our kids permission to give up on a topic that can be learned and mastered with practice, perseverance and the proper “can do” mindset.  Let’s support our kids with a positive attitude towards math and encourage them to succeed in mathematics instead of making up excuses and being tacitly complicit in their failure.

Wynne Stovall-Johnson is currently a secondary mathematics teacher at Lower Merion High School in Pa. At Lower Merion she has taught all levels of mathematics from consumer math through standard level Calculus since 1993. Before teaching high school, Wynne taught middle school for 3 years in NJ. Wynne holds a Masters of Arts degree in Mathematics Education from Teachers College – Columbia University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Spelman College and her Principal Certification from Cabrini College. She currenty lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband and two children.

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Whether we like to admit it or not, there’s something in the human heart that’s drawn to darkness and chaos. You know that superhuman hearing you suddenly get when car tires screech in the distance? Or the strange glee you feel when the Joker blows up a hospital in his finest nurse’s uniform? This mischievous tendency, which Edgar Allen Poe famously referred to the “imp of the perverse,” sits just below the surface of most people’s everyday lives. Perhaps our love of violent entertainment – be it action movies, video games, death metal, or the roughly seven thousand television crime series currently on the air – can be seen as a sort of collective catharsis for societies that struggle with the question of what it means to be civilized.

For a select few people in any society, however, the imp of the perverse proves much more persuasive than the angel on our shoulder. What is bound to be this summer’s wickedly cathartic blockbuster chronicles the exploits of one such group of men. Starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, “Public Enemies” tells the story of the 1930’s most notorious American bank robbers during what later became known as the “public enemy era.” What catches our attention about this film – aside from the amazing theme song provided by Otis Taylor, or the fact that Depp seems to have pulled a Dorian Gray on his biological clock – is that it offers us a glimpse into the What If of our own psyches. Jerking the wheel violently to the left on the freeway? Yes, it really is that easy.

Even more interesting, perhaps, are the questions such stories raise about what drives people to the behavioral fringe. After all, “Public Enemies” is set during the Great Depression, which, despite what recent news may have you believe, remains far and away the worst economic downturn in American history. For a better sense of just how desperate things got, keep in mind that in 1933 (right smack in the middle of the public enemy era), over 100,000 Americans applied to immigrate to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. Yes, applied. Heck, even African colonial subjects in the Cameroons put on a fundraiser for impoverished US citizens – and successfully collected almost four million dollars in aid. (Picture a Cameroonian Bono leading the charge to feed starving Americans.) With this in mind, one could argue that bankrobbing is simply an extreme example of the ends to which people are driven in times of need.

But what, then, of the well-off and seemingly well-adjusted citizen who turns out to be a serial killer? Or our childhood fascination with killing bugs and insects – or even small animals? As Flannery O’Connor explores in her 1953 short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” human psychology is not particularly fond of straightforward cause-and-effect relationships. While in the process of killing three generations of an entire family, the story’s villainous antagonist (simply referred to as “The Misfit”) declares that there’s “nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can – by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness.” This idea of meanness for meanness’ sake challenges the notion that people are basically good, or that the mitigating factors of life are what catalyze individuals into particular types of behavior.

Whichever the case may be, the fact remains that we are endlessly fascinated by seeing bad things happen, often to good people. Hopefully, our willingness to pay upwards of five dollars for the popcorn alone speaks to nothing more than a deeply-rooted subconscious desire to process – and eliminate – these darker tendencies.

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poems and American History. It’s a perfect aid for students and teachers seeking guidance with advance study, essays and writing papers. It promises to make learning and writing more fun and relevant.

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For most teens and tweens, summertime means hitting up the nearest beach, river, public pool, swimhole, or neighbor’s garden hose, depending on your locale. For some, it means traveling, or finally getting around to that oft-dreamed-of roadtrip. For others, it means bulking up in secret to astonish your friends and dismay your enemies. But for an increasing number of students, it means mandatory summer reading. Long gone are the carefree summer breaks of childhood, which stretched on for the better part of an eternity and actually made you miss class ever so slightly. And with a slew of summer blockbusters on their way – not to mention having your own car and the ID required for admission – it might seem doubtful that you’ll manage to get everything done on time. Especially considering how long it’ll take to sew your costume for the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Instead of letting it completely obliterate your will to achieve, try and let Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince help you. How’s that, you ask? This July 15th, when you’re camped outside the theater behind three hundred other people, or hiding out in the bathroom so you can sneak into a second showing, take a moment to think back on how the Harry Potter series made you, your friends, your kid cousin, your grandparents, and, let’s not kid ourselves, even the family dog feel about reading. These books galvanized an entire generation of readers, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and getting translated into nearly seventy languages. The best part of all? You can re-capture the feeling during a runtime of just two hours and twenty minutes, which is way less time than it takes to re-read the book (for us mere muggles, anyway). Meaning you can put this extra time toward – voila! – your required reading list.

While you’re at it, you can put some of these literature resources to good use. With study guides, in-depth analysis, fun facts, and essay-building tools, you’ll see how easy it is to apply your summer reading to what you already know. Take Moby-Dick’s Captain Ahab, for example, who is left disfigured after a nasty incident with a white whale and dedicates his life to hunting the monster down – just as Harry Potter is left scarred by a run-in with Voldemort and sacrifices everything to put an end to his terror. Or Prince Hamlet, who is arguably the angstiest protagonist in English literature and spends most of the play contemplating his father’s murder – just as Harry never fails to remind the gang that his parents were killed and his life sucks. (Let’s be honest: Harry gets pretty whiney for a book or two there.) With a little effort and a touch of creativity, you’ll be cranking out your summer reading in no time.

And of course if all else fails, you can always sneak in a second or third reading of Twilight. Harry will never know.

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poems and American History. It’s a perfect aid for students and teachers seeking guidance with advance study, essays and writing papers. It promises to make learning and writing more fun and relevant.

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