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?
1) I too have many questions regarding teacher responsibility to adequate yearly progress. It is important that teachers take great responsibility in this challenging and rewarding career we have chosen, yet I have seen teachers place their all into a child with no progress. I think that we have made improvements to ensuring success for every child and the placement of support systems, such as teacher support teams. With the tier model, we will not only decrease the amount of students in sped, but identify genuine problems earlier and quickly put interventions in place.
ReplyDelete2) I think that students will make more connections to material if it can be related to their life outside the classroom. With that said, I do believe that we have a responsibility to shelter students to some degree from the outside influences. For instance, I don't think we should necessarily include certain literature in our classrooms that students may otherwise see outside the classroom. As we discussed in math, relational knowledge provides students with more success in content areas.