Sentence examples for narrow teaching from inspiring English sources

These exams then yield narrow test scores, and league tables built on those basis – which then generates a demand for the kind of narrow teaching that produces this tutoring arms race.

While this can include cheating, the bigger problem is "narrow teaching to the test and pushing out low-scoring students".

The study also found that the exam caused teachers to narrow their teaching of writing in relation to processes taught, assignment design, and evaluation criteria utilized.

I was immediately doubtful -- not only that this measure would distort and narrow the teaching practices of our graduates, but that it would provide support and validation for the advocates of value added evaluation across the state.

Her comments follow a report by the former Conservative education secretary Lord Baker, who has called for an overhaul of the "narrow" curriculum taught in schools.

The report explains how the current system of student data collection more often than not creates "perverse incentives" for educators to narrow curriculum, teach to the test and allocate their efforts disproportionately to students who yield the quickest test-score gains, rather than those with the greatest needs.

But math educators mostly agree that this reflects an overemphasis on narrow, skills-based teaching, with more attention to calculation than to problem-solving.

Attitudes have already changed so that the narrow conception of teaching is being replaced with a diverse conception of learning.

"There is none of the narrow-minded kind of teaching that you get in conservatories," she continued.

Alistair Anderson, Bedfordshire I didn't enjoy my time at my single-sex grammar school, partly because of the narrow-minded way of teaching.

In their home's narrow hallway, he taught Sean how to carry a football and how to tackle.