The reason this page was developed was because the education process here in El Paso, Texas is plagued by schools and teachers that teach and build their yearly curriculums and lesson plans around the TAAS testing format. This not only cheats ts the students from learning to their full potentials, but it has also been proven to be ineffective when compared to other learning methods.  Along with myself, my fellow students have all learned if that teaching using brain based teaching methods that are conducive to higher thought processes, our students will have the resources and the knowledge base to successfully pass the TAAS test without having being taught the "tricks" on how to pass the TAAS.

Problems with solely relying on TAAS as an accurate tool for assessing student performance

Texas essentials of knowledge and skills homepage.

TEKS homepage of grades K-12 here in Texas
 
 

To find an answer and to learn more about how design principles in education can be influenced by brain-based research visit
http://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedLearn98.htm
 

Principles of Brain-Based Learning
Developed by the Combined Elementary Task Forces of the Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium (MOEC), Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1999
http://www.unocoe.unomaha.edu/brainbased.htm#intro

The International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy
http://www.icasl.org/
 
 

http://www.aaas.org/
 

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