AMEN!!!!!!!!! --- On Wed, 10/12/11, Renee <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Renee <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] title 1 reading - help To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 3:11 PM There is no one right way to teach, and no one program that will meet the needs of all students. To me, the term, "packaged program for balanced literacy" is inherently an oxymoron. For those of us who came of age in our classrooms in the early to mid 90s, who learned to use running records as a matter of course during guided reading groups and miscue analyses for more information, who were encouraged by administrators to use a workshop approach with heterogeneous classrooms, who used real literature (some leveled, some not), who learned to document our kidwatching with action terms and not editorial terms, who moved through our days doing individual and small group conferencing, who developed ways to help students drive their own learning and do ongoing self-assessments, this incessant gathering of data and overuse of programs is rather distressing, especially when it is being driven from way at the top by people far, far removed from the classroom. More two cents... Renee On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:40 PM, jeanette hayden wrote: > Could you please define "OLDER". And please explain your 'kid-watching' > training. Was that by the Goodman's? > > Some of we 'Elders' have been hit in the head by the pendulum a few times. So > please forgive us. > Many of my student teachers are trained to do standard based lessons, but > know nothing about book levels, thematic or integrated teaching, running > records, etc. > New to the profession are wonderful techies. > Just had a conversation with someone wanting to do her research on 'guided > reading groups' and how effective they were. > > Remember, Regie Routman's Literacy at the Crossroads was in the late 90's. > > Jeanette Hayden > > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Felicia Barra wrote: > >> I would also agree. I teach in a fairly large district (9 elementary >> schools) where we've adopted a packaged program for balanced literacy. It's >> not perfect but a good start. The older teachers want a step by step >> scripted curriculum with a workbook which teaches skills not strategies. It >> is the younger teachers who have continued to do research, further their >> education and read professionally that understand what needs to be done. I >> even have a colleague that displays worksheets on her classroom bulletin >> board! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:07 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] title 1 reading - help >> >> Oh wow. I see absolutely the opposite! Most of the newer teachers I >> see were at least trained in kid-watching. I see older teachers who >> want a manual and step by step scripted curriculum. Or want to >> continue the books and worksheets they have used for 15 or 20 years! >> In fact, I just had a conference with my own daugher's teacher. My >> daughter is left handed. The room only had right hand desks. I wanted >> it changed. The teacher said no one has ever had a problem in 20 >> years. Really? Or she never noticed? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Renee <[email protected]> >> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 7:30 pm >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] title 1 reading - help >> >> >> I absolutely agree! I am concerned that it seems that newer/younger >> teachers are less and less able to rely on their own observations, >> and that it seems the norm to instantly look for a program of some >> kind, rather than cultivate the knowledge and observational skills >> necessary for good kid-watching. And once again, this is not a >> criticism of newer/younger teachers... it is a criticism of the >> system and their trainers. >> >> Renee >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
