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SpringBoard Curriculum
by Frustrated English Teacher
Nov 21, 2012
Our district bought the SpringBoard/CollegeBoard curriculum for mandated use for 6-12 grade. I have now taught it for almost two years. We are using a student-centered approach which I feel has its merits, but very little direct teaching involved. We must teach step-by-step in the workbook. We have walk-thrus by administartion often to see that we are all doing the "same thing". I feel the curriculum is boring the students to death and we are not allowed to deviate from it. We have become robots teaching this curriculum. Does anyone have advice that is familiar with this curriculum? Has anyone had success with SpringBoard? Does anyone else hate it?
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Sara On 11/21/12, Frustrated English Teacher wrote: > Our district bought the SpringBoard/CollegeBoard curriculum > for mandated use for 6-12 grade. I have now taught it for > almost two years. We are using a student-centered approach > which I feel has its merits, but very little direct > teaching involved.

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Nov 21, 2012
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Oregon teacher I'm not a big fan. As you said, it has its merits. It does teach skills and drills to the point ove overkill. It's boring. I teach Adv. 9th grade and I've been using it for two months now. I watched energetic, enthuastic freshman enter my class ready to be engaged and learn at the beginning of the year, and now I look out over my class in the middl...See More
Oct 4, 2014
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Anonymous Springboard is the hell-spawn conceived by the union of corporate greed and soul-numbing tedium - and that's just on the middle school level.

My students are far more in need of grammatical conventions and literary enlightenment than instructions in accountable talk and film angles.

Perhaps the best part is the total lack of di...See More
Jul 26, 2015
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Diane I hate it. With a passion. It's dry, it's tedious, it doesn't flow, the kids hate it, the teachers hate it...Shall I go on?
Sep 9, 2015
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