D Kauffman, SM Johnson, SM Kardos… - Teachers College …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com

“Lost at sea”: New teachers' experiences with curriculum and assessment.

Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity AND Program Evaluation

Johnson

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Excerpt

To better understand how new teachers experience curriculum and assessments in the face of standards-based reform, we interviewed a diverse sample of 50 1st-and 2nd-year Massachusetts teachers working in a wide range of public schools. We found that, despite the state's development of standards and statewide assessments, these new teachers received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it. Left to their own devices, they struggled day to day to prepare content and materials. The standards and …

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