Comments:
- Teachers are expected to produce achievement for all students.
- NCLB mandates the use of research-based teaching and learning practices.
- The more pathways teachers use while teaching, the more likely it will be that one will connect with the special strengths and needs of individual students.
- Learning strategies are ways to learn in a content area.
- Through flexible and varied approaches to the curriculum and texts, teachers can use content area literacy to help all of today's adolescents learn to be successful.
- Whenever possible, focus classroom conversations on students' experiences such as connecting rap music to poetry literature analogies and having students consider everyday uses and misuses of numbers and data.
Questions:
1) How can a teacher be punished if a child just cannot meet adequately yearly progress?
2) To what extent should the students' lives outside the classroom be embedded into the concepts taught inside the classroom?
