We actually have something vert similar set up. The units are flexible, they give us some ideas, but we can supplement w/ our own. If you are at a low performing school, you MUST follow the order and give the benchmarks, but it's not too bad.
On 5/14/07, kimberlee hannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can totally relate to how you feel. I was also was taught to use the > RW/WW and LOVED it. In my old life in elementary, we were to be on a > certain page of the basal at a certain time. Short of a coronary or > murder > of my administrator, I complied (when the door was open...). > > Then I decided to move up to middle school and found a new mind. They > wanted the kids taught and the STANDARDS taught, not the book. Now, with > that in mind, our district is trying a new approach . There are certain > things that the standards demand be taught. The district has (stupid, > IMHO) > benchmarks they give. They also give us a predetermined list of > vocabulary > words that need to be taught. > > The new curriculum maps are laid out so that the standards to be taught > are > laid out. The result at the end of the quarter is there. How I get from > point A to point B is up to me. The map is laid out so that a new teacher > can use the textbook exclusively if they so choose. The experienced > teacher > can do in the way they feel is best for kids. I choose to do RW/WW. As > long as I work within the standards, I am fine. > > For the first time, I don't feel constricted completely by someone else's > agenda. New and valuing individual creativity--new fangled idea. > > Maybe this is something you can suggest to your powers that be... > Kim > > > -- > Kimberlee Hannan > Department Chair > Sequoia Middle School > Fresno, CA > > Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't > change, kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give > everything, have no regrets.. Life's too short to be anything but happy. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
