Standardized testing season getting you down? Find some fun ideas for encouraging your students to try their hardest come testing day.

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STANDARDIZED TESTING:

3. You’ve got testing coming up and your
students are not excited.
Neither are you, for that matter. It’s hard to
get behind a day in which your students are
miserable, you don’t get to teach them
anything, and the results of their bored
labor can and will be used against you.
TheProblem

4. Invite students to nominate a class pump-
up theme song as a homework assignment.
Have them choose a song and explain why
it will help the class get ready for the test.
Let the class vote on which song to use.
Play it leading up to testing and as students
walk in for the test.
Solution#1:ClassThemeSong

5. SongIdeas
“Golden” by Mika
“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey
“Ya Be;er Believe” by Max Morgan

6. Create a daily game for your students to play
leading up to the testing that engages the
test content in a fun way.
Solution#2:GamePrep

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8. Many students respond to the idea of a
challenge, and who doesn’t like to win a
prize?
As tesKng gets close, let students brainstorm
with you to come up with ways they can earn
points throughout the tesKng. Make cards to
show what earns points and the prizes they
can win with those points.
Solution#3:ChallengeCards

9. ForExample:Ways toEarnPoints
10 Points Keeping a positive attitude about the test.
10 Points Going to bed by 10 pm on the night before the
test
10 Points Eating a good breakfast on the day of the test
10 Points Making a pump-up playlist and listening to it
before the test
10 Points Trying to stay focused during the test, writing or
re-reading your answers the whole time (you decide how
many points you earn)

10. Make students test-taking kits. Put in gum
and lifesavers, a fun pencil, a printed card
from you.
Add whatever you want, whatever you think
will make the arduous process of
standardized testing just a bit nicer for them.
It doesn’t have to cost much.
Solution#4:Test-TakingKits

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12. Choose a color to wear on test day. Hand out
wristbands. Brainstorm a slogan and bring in a
hilarious stuffed animal to be the team
mascot.
Make t-shirts. Bring pom poms – why not?
Help students feel they are part of the class
team and you are their coach and cheerleader
every bit of the way.
Solution#5:Makeit aTeamEffort

13. SloganIdeas
“Our House”
“What Would Hermione Do?”
“Make it Happen.”
“Intensity.”

14. As students get nervous about testing, lighten
the mood a bit by letting them think about it in
a funny and creative way.
Offer journal prompts relating to testing in the
days preceding it.
Solution#6:Lighten theMood

15. Prompt Idea:
Write a story beginning with the line…
“I knew the test day was going to go well
when I opened the packet and saw the
words: You have been chosen. Quietly put
down your pencil and walk through the
blue door that has just appeared in the
wall.”

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