Since the week-long assessment is standards-based, one might argue that one is "prepping” all year, or not prepping at all, since -- in theory -- the test is based on the provincial curriculum expectations for that division, which we should all have been teaching anyway. But of course, we all know that there’s more to the test than the standards on which it’s based.
In Ontario, the test has become so high stakes that people buy and sell houses based on schools’ published results. You can imagine the kind of pressure that surrounds such an assessment, when the real estate market depends on it!!! So yes, I do “prepare” my students, and here’s how I do it....