In a message dated 7/10/2010 10:37:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
think the main reason schools are adopting basals is a lack of trust in teacher knowledge. To play devil's advocate, not all teachers come to the profession prepared to teach. Put a basal in the hands of a less seasoned teacher and perhaps you'll have a chance at good instruction. The more seasoned teachers do not need it of course. I think this all speaks to the level of preparedness our teachers are coming out of university with. Laura I agree. I know in our school we have moved from a literacy collaborative to using a series last year. One reason for the series was to have consistent assessments and to know that certain skills were covered (need for consistency). The other reason was that so many new teachers had been hired with mixed literacy training. This past year, we all used our new series "by the book" so to speak and none of us were thrilled (3rd grade). The assessments were not that great... in fact somewhat confusing the way they assess the targeted skill and the kids didn't seem to have enough independent reading time or just reading in general. I'm looking forward to next year when I can go back and combine what I've done in the past with a few things from the series. I've really been enjoying everyone's posts! ~jen _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
