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Chicago
school uses technology to help students prepare
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Chicago high school
teachers, especially those in schools where students
typically perform reasonably well on the state's
more basic-skills-oriented tests, structure their
courses to prepare students for the Chicago Academic
Standards Examinations (CASE) exams.
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appear to discourage teachers from incorporating
open-ended and challenging uses of technology. Teachers
find that they can use technology to prepare students
for various aspects of the exams. At Von Steuben
Center, English teacher Jayshree McKechnie, for example,
had her freshman English students create poetry
books as a way of thoroughly learning the poetry
forms and conventions that would be tested on the
district’s CASE exam. Science teacher Carmen
Gonzalez had students use technology tools as they
researched and presented a real or imagined creature
and its habitat as a motivating way of reviewing
the ecology concepts that would be on the biology
CASE. |
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