Re: also fighting push-in

alison

Posted on 2/16/10

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Now that they have us pushing in at my school, they're planning on
failing some of our students as well. Well, I guess I won't be exiting
anyone this year. This is not working at all! My principal is a real
genius. :(

On 2/06/10, Lora Dietrich wrote:
> On 1/22/10, Push-in = (LOKOS by Policy Makers) wrote:
>> What is emphasized over and over at my school is planning,
>> collaboration, cooperation. The catch here is that planning,
>> collaboration, cooperation does not make up for inappropriate
>> populating of mainstream classrooms. By that I mean mainstreaming
>> large numbers of low proficiency ELLs in classes that are
>> otherwise already very diverse. Students at the lowest
>> proficiency level(s), particularly those from backgrounds of
>> limited schooling, usually need some time for pull-out. Check
>> out my comments at "I hate push-in."
>>
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>> On 12/05/09, ElemESOL wrote:
>>> Push-in hasn't been so bad for me, but I'm new and have
>>> never done pull-out. I agree that planning time is an
>>> issue, and as a result what I've done with my co-teachers
>>> is work only with a designated group. These are "my" kids
>>> that I plan for and teach. It's like pulling out, only
>>> we're in the same room. Otherwise, I'd be an overpaid
>>> teacher's aide. From a selfish standpoint I love it
>>> because I'm always working with other adults.
>>>
>>> This has worked well for me, but other ESL teachers who
>>> don't have cooperative co-teachers are being reamed out by
>>> the principal for inadaquate lesson plans. Well, how can
>>> you plan for push-in when your co-teacher won't
>>> communicate with you? We also have parents who are upset
>>> when their kid is labeled ESL because they don't want
>>> their kid pulled out, and they're pleased to find out we
>>> have the push-in model so pleasing the parents is part of
>>> our school's choice to use the push-in model.
>>>
> It sounds like what you are doing could be pullout also. You can
> have push in (to the curriculum) instruction delivered in a
> seperate room.

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