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Here's my anecdote concerning 'teaching to the test'.
That worked well early on when the workshops were filled with more
experienced teachers. In fact, I had a couple come back for a second year
to 'get some more of the same.' However, in later years, with the
population of the workshops tending towards the younger, less experienced
teachers, I found that ALL they wanted to do was to learn HOW TO TEACH TO
THE TEST. My efforts to stress that they needed to teach a GOOD,
College-Level course (and what that entailed) fell on deaf ears. Finally,
out of frustration, I gave up and have not taught the workshop for the past
three years.