Math Forum Discussions

Rice

Posts: 116
Registered: 12/3/04

RE: HELP - Regents in Gym or Classrooms
Posted: Oct 11, 2008 11:12 AM

Plain Text

I absolutely hate the gym as a testing site. It is very difficult to settle
the students down when they enter such a large space. Clearing calculators
is a nightmare and the proctor situation is awful because the adults tend to
stand together in a huddle and some adults don't think about the shoes they
wear into the gym for this assignment. If someone is wearing shoes with
hard soles, it is extremely noisy and distracting. The gym always seems to
be either cold or hot and there is no good way to regulate the heat. I had
read an article (I don't remember what publication it was in.) that stated
the best testing site was a familiar space. We moved all math regents exams
into classrooms and the students scores improved. We are a very large
district and I needed 33 rooms for Math A and B last year. Distributing
classroom sets of calculators was done by teams of math teachers after the
proctors arrived. This system has worked well for us.
Terry Rice
Cicero-N. Syracuse High School

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nyshsmath@mathforum.org [mailto:owner-nyshsmath@mathforum.org]
On Behalf Of Tozzo, William
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:40 AM
To: nyshsmath@mathforum.org
Subject: HELP - Regents in Gym or Classrooms

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C92BA6.F2841073
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_002_01C92BA6.F2841073"

- ------_=_NextPart_002_01C92BA6.F2841073
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello Everyone:
=20
I'm going to try and talk my adminstrators into allowing my department
administer the Regents in the gym or cafeteria as classrooms are a
logistical nightmare and we have teachers from other departments proctor
the exams and they are challenging to work with to say the least. I'd
love to hear from as many people as possible who tried both and like the
gym/cafeteria setting better and why.=20
=20
Thanks everyone,
=20
Bill
=20
William C. Tozzo
Mathematics Coordinator 6-12
Bedford Central School District
P.O. Box 390
Route 172
Bedford, N.Y. 10506
=20
=20

- ------_=_NextPart_002_01C92BA6.F2841073
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dus-ascii">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D000563513-11102008>Hello=20
Everyone:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D000563513-11102008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D000563513-11102008>I'm =
going to try and=20
talk my adminstrators into allowing my department administer the Regents =
in the=20
gym or cafeteria as classrooms are a logistical nightmare and we have =
teachers=20
from other departments proctor the exams and they are challenging to =
work with=20
to say the least. I'd love to hear from as many people as possible=20
who tried both and like the gym/cafeteria setting better and why.=20
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D000563513-11102008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D000563513-11102008>Thanks =

everyone,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D000563513-11102008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D000563513-11102008>Bill</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><STRONG><FONT face=3DArial>William C. =
Tozzo</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><STRONG><EM>Mathematics =
Coordinator=20
6-12</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bedford Central School=20
District</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>P.O. Box 390</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Route 172</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bedford, N.Y. =
10506</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>

- ------_=_NextPart_002_01C92BA6.F2841073--

- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C92BA6.F2841073
Content-Type: text/x-vcard;
name="wtozzo1841@bcsdny.org.vcf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: wtozzo1841@bcsdny.org.vcf
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="wtozzo1841@bcsdny.org.vcf"
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- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C92BA6.F2841073--
*******************************************************************
* To unsubscribe from this mailing list, email the message
* "unsubscribe nyshsmath" to majordomo@mathforum.org
*
* Read prior posts and download attachments from the web archives at
* http://mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=671
*****************************************************************

*******************************************************************
* To unsubscribe from this mailing list, email the message
* "unsubscribe nyshsmath" to majordomo@mathforum.org
*
* Read prior posts and download attachments from the web archives at
* http://mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=671
*******************************************************************