Re: wait til your district demands the "math workshop model

Amen to that!

Posted on 10/20/09

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On 10/18/09, GO AWAY, RTI & NCLB & Dibels!!!!!!! wrote:
> Will education ever be the way it used to be & students learning like they
> used to?!

Our jobs as teachers will never be the same! I'm all for helping the
struggling child but don't tell me I have to DIBEL every kid to find the
ones that need help. What happen to trusting the teacher's decision and
give the time and money to assist these strugglers instead of constantly
testing them and requiring us to do the paperwork. RtI is a lovely concept
with 15-20 kids in a class, but how do you give that 2-3 Tier 2 kids an
extra 30 min. while the other 25 kids are "independently" working? It seems
to me that all this extra testing is to identify those few that need extra
help, like we wouldn't know that. Energy, time and money needs to be spent
to make sure we have qualified teachers in the schools and find out why
these kids are struggling. You'll find most of the problems start at the
home. Meanwhile, the kids who are doing well and need advanced instruction
are not given the time because we're so busy pulling up the strugglers. I'm
pretty sure that's why we have LD and Spec. ED. teachers. We are expected
to work miracles.

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