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

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I have quite a group of youngsters that I am struggling to
work with. My day is 90 minutes of reading, 40 min of
math interventions. Then lunch/recess, math, phonics, and
we are supposed to do 30 min of reading intervention with
the lowest kids. I have way to many to put into one
group...yet not enough time to put them into 2 groups. I
have a para pro (who can not get it through her head what
I want her to do). I have complained numerous times that
insteady of 19 kids, I have 20. One quarter down, 3 more
to go.

As far as working hard to make our kids successful, I
would like to know WHEN parents will help their children
learn their letters, counting, number recognition so that
I can take get them to meet state standards. Good grief!
I am NOT a miracle worker. I have just so much energy
and time, NOT!

On 10/20/09, Amen to that! wrote:
> 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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