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 * Week 5**
 * Read Chapter 4-Post a comment on your own blog and respond to 2 posts of another person's blog on any chapter read thus far.
 * On the book study blog write a comment about the following:

On page 79 Willingham states, “Students draw a strong implicit message from the content of tests: if it’s on the test, its important.” We as teachers tend to take our cues as to what’s important from the ISATs. Unfortunately these tests do not test deep knowledge, so teachers taking their cues from these standardized tests, continue to teach and design tests that often test only shallow knowledge. How do we begin to emphasize deep knowledge and give the message to students that deep understanding is what is important? Also how can we teach kids to be flexible competent problem solvers when the tests we give them allow only for answers that are either right or wrong? In the real world, problems often have multiple solutions, and those that can generate multiple credible solutions are frequently the deepest thinkers.