Yo Ho Yo Ho

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• Yo Ho! Yo Ho!
• A Pirates Life for Me!

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Pirate is in your blood

• Do you have the courage and fortitude to stay
  true in the face of certain danger pain of
  death?

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Pirates- Ye Be Warned!

• The state continues to increase its focus on test
  security. YOU will be a major part of that
  focus.

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A Change in the Winds

• Oaths are more detailed
• Active Monitoring is being stressed VERY heavily.
• Accurate tracking of secure materials is also
  under close scrutiny.
• You need to do all within your power to make our
  testing sessions secure and accurate.

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Stick to the Code

• Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39,
  Subchapter B
• Texas Administrative Code (TAC) 19 Subchapter
  101, Assessment
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
  (FERPA)
• Texas Penal Code 37.10 - Tampering

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Swear on Pain of Death

• You will initial each item individually, and then
  sign an oath stating you have been trained for
  test administration.
• Only after signing this oath may you handle
  secured materials.
• This oath will state that you are aware of the
  security procedures and requirements.
• By signing this oath you accept the consequences
  should you fail to adhere to restrictions laid
  out for you.
• This oath is a LEGAL document. It is actionable
  by the district or the state.

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Listen Up Ye Skallywags!

• Be SURE you are trained BEFORE handling secure
  materials!
• Be SURE you sign materials out AFTER you verify
  the count is correct!
• Be just as sure you count them when you sign them
  IN!

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Pirates are obsessed with treasure.

• NEVER leave materials unattended, unless they are
  LOCKED in a secure place.
• Cabinet, desk drawer, file cabinet, or even just
  a LOCKED room will work.
• Key word is LOCKED!!!

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Dont ignore the Rules of Engagement

• Confidential Integrity involves protecting the
  contents of each test booklet and answer
  document.

• No one is to view test contents before, during,
  or after administration.

• Testing procedures as outlined in the manual must
  be followed.

• Secure materials cannot be duplicated except for
  writing sample.

• No one may review student responses except in the
  course of transcribing.

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Stick to the Pirate Code

• Anyone being aware of a breach of the
  confidential integrity of the State Mandated
  Tests is obligated BY LAW to make the campus
  coordinator or principal aware of the situation.

That Bobby! Can you believe he put 5 on
question 12?
I WISH you hadnt told me that!!!!
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Dont Walk the Plank

• Placement of restrictions on the issuance,
  renewal, or holding of a Texas Teaching
  Certificate, either indefinitely or for a set
  term
• Issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed
  reprimand
• Suspension of a Texas Teaching Certificate for a
  set term
• Revocation or cancellation of a Texas Teaching
  Certificate without opportunity for reapplication
  for a set term or permanently
• Some form of district sanction

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Violations Resulting in Referrals to Educator
Certification and Standards

• Viewing a test before, during, or after an
  assessment
• Scoring students tests
• Discussing secure test content or student
  responses
• Duplicating secure material without TEA
  authorization

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Avoid Pillaging and Plundering

• While use of a highlighter is a valuable test
  taking skill, some heavy cautions to students
  need be made to keep them AWAY from the answer
  documents.
• Answer documents with excessive highlighter marks
  have to be transcribed onto clean answer
  documents.

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WARNING!
No Ballpoint Pens!
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Take care of The TAKS Pearl

• Comfort - Normal temperature
• Space Avoid crowding
• Planning Know standard testing procedures for
  your campus. Also know emergency procedures to
  follow during testing.
• Room Preparation
• Remove or cover relevant teaching aides
• Timing - Follow campus plan.

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Commandeer the Ship

• It is NECESSARY to ACTIVELY MONITOR the students
  while testing.
• Make sure pens are not being used on the test
• You need to make SURE the students are marking
  their answers on their answer documents!!! ( It
  is a testing irregularity if you do not.)
• Make sure the students are working on the proper
  test, portion of the test, and portion of the
  answer document.
• Make sure no helps are on the student desks
• Testing is NOT a cooperative learning situation.
• (Cheat Sheets)

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Load Your Cannons

• ACTIVE MONITORING IS moving about the classroom,
  observing student behavior and testing
  procedures.
• Check for students recording answers on answer
  document, working on correct test, dictionary
  use, and no cell phones.

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Or its off to the gallows for ye

• ACTIVE MONITORING IS NOT
• answering e mails,
• surfing the web,
• reading a book or magazine
• talking on a cell phone,
• grading papers,
• entering grades on a computer.

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Crew Duty
How could I make a ZERO?!?! I didnt even take
the test!!!
WHATEVER the appropriate score code, make sure it
is marked!!!!!!
SScore AAbsent
Failure to mark the appropriate
not-to-be-scored(A, X, L, O, etc.) code for a
subject may result in a score of ZERO for the
student and campus. Placing an S score code on
a blank answer document will cause that score to
figure in the campus results as well.
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Scrub the Decks

• Form Code
• Make sure number at top matches the booklet and
  the bubbles!

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The Shiny Medallion

• Read your manual before the day of the test!
• You must read the instructions to the students
  (do not paraphrase). Open your manual
• 9th p. 39-41-NO! Directions-p. 42
• 10thp. 47-49-NO! Directions-p. 50
• 11thp. 45-47-NO! Directions-p.48
• Start with instructions, NOT precoded
  information!
• Writing Prompt!
• Look at Ensure Proper Testing Procedures!
• You cannot read prompt aloud unless a student
  asks you to do so.

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Begin the Search for Fortune

• Bring your medallion (manual).
• Get your stuff from A118 by 830am. Count
  everything and Sign out!
• Send kids with questions to HALL MONITORS.
• Keep box with you at all times.

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Aye Avast!

• Do not accept students not on your list.
• Students bring nothing with them.
• Students must sign cell phone oath.
• Attendance 3 sheets (see example)
• Pass out answer documents booklets.
• Remind students Do not mark ANYTHING on ANYTHING
  until I tell you!

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Assist Your Matey

• Tell students to check I.D. information (on
  sticker or penciled in). Do not say PEIMS or SS
  or name.
• If they say PEIMS or Name is wrong, we have to
  give them a NEW answer document (hall monitor),
  unless information is penciled in.
• Anything else wrong? Mark it with a post-it (and
  write what is wrong).

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A Ghastly Situation It Is

• No scratch paper students write in booklet.
• Students must sign cell phone oath.
• Pass out highlighters and pencils.
• Begin test as soon as youre ready.
• Be an active monitor (watch their hands!).

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Keep a Lookout

• Dictionaries (1 for every 5 students)
• Thesaurus (1 in every box)
• 9th Can use them the whole time
• 10th 11th Use only on 1st section Cannot use
  during 2nd section (revising editing). Once
  student has opened 2nd section, remove name
  post-it from desk.
• Make em raise their hand to start 2nd section.
• Cannot use their own dictionaries
• SDAA refer to chart in box

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Mutineers be Darned

• QUESTIONS I cant answer that for you just do
  the best you can.
• BATHROOM Use blue pass. Only one student at a
  time.
• SNACKS Well bring them in. Ans docs inside test
  booklets and MONITOR what they are saying.
• NURSE Only in emergencies. Notify students that
  if they leave, they cant finish the test. We
  have to escort them.

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Like Davy Jones Locker

• After a student is done
• Pick up test. Glance to see that answers are
  marked on answer document.
• Put by box. Continue watching students.
• Once partner comes in, then bubble SScore or
  AAbsent, ans docs inside booklets, put in
  numerical order.
• Remember, students can read a book (no textbooks)
  when they are done, but cannot do homework or
  draw. If you want, you can check out magazines
  from library for students to read, but we will
  show a movie for 9th graders (channel 31).
• SDAA rooms 11am-relocate kids not done to H104
  and escort students who are done to cafeteria
  (teachers stay in cafeteria with kids until bell
  rings.)

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Hold Your Fire!

• 9th
• 1130 UFT answer documents test booklets
  together Bathroom Relief (BR) relocate students.
• 10th 11th
• 1230 UFT answer documents and test booklets
  together one administrator or takes to
  relocation rooms.

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Its On the Horizon

• Students DO NOT talk until UFTs have left. UFTs
  DO NOT look at anything or do anything else until
  they are completely done with the test. Make a
  note of UFTs on Stay in Box attendance sheet.
• Turn in box (organized by card) to Hall monitor.
  Make sure you are aware of your numbers.
• UFT Rooms Teachers bring in the kids WITH UFT
  sheets. Do not accept them without it. Keep track
  of students using these sheets.

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• Sign your oath. It is legally binding!
• County District 061 902
• School Phone [phone]
• Denton County
• Arghhhh you ready for TAKS?