You are not alone in your stress. I hear teachers dropping out of
teaching reading over this. Yes, parents are angry. Take heart.
People are figuring out what is going on. Don't believe PsyGuy that
people have no power. He still has egg on his face over his
blustering about no one would listen about the crappy lessons in
CSCOPE...blah, blah. They sure did listen. There is a new wave of
fireworks to come. But please, teachers, do what you can to stand
in resistence. Call legislators, talk to parents privately and
have them take action, join in to parent groups that are fighting
against fed led ed, and speak up outside of your school district.
You will not get fired. Teachers have always had the right to speak
out on political issues that affect their profession. Never try to
change things in your school--that's the key. There are groups all
over the state organized and ready to oppose STAAR testing. This is
just the beginning. There will be good days ahead.
On 9/15/14, PsyGuy wrote:
> We pretty much just modified the readers/writers workshop
> methodology with an added peer teaching component. Which is
> actually just advance readers/writers workshop, since at the
> advance level includes peer editing.
>
> On 9/15/14, Teacher wrote:
>> It's a specific way that we have to teach-10 minute mini
>> lesson, 8-10 minute "struggle or think outside the box time,"
>> 20 minutes of the students teaching each other, and a 5
>> minute "wrap up." The kids leave not knowing what they were
>> supposed to learn and the parents are angry because they can't
>> help their child if the child doesn't know what they are
>> supposed to do. Of course, we are still required to use TRS
>> assessments. It's just blowing up all over again from K-6th
>> grade in my district because of this. I tried to attach a
>> website, but the Texas Teacher Chatboard wants me to register.
>> Um, no thanks. I need my job.
>>
>>
>> On 9/14/14, what is the workshop model? wrote:
>>> It is all about control. That is what the Professional
>>> Learning Community stuff is all about (PLC). Can you explain
>>> more about the Workshop Model program?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/14/14, Teacher wrote:
>>>> It's like our school district is purposely driving students
>>>> and teachers away! In addition to still using the CSCOPE/TRS
>>>> assessments, now we have to use this Workshop Model
> program
>>>> . Parents are really mad about it and we can't say a thing.
>>>> We are now being encouraged to be "diplomats" for the school
>>>> district and never say anything that could be negative beca
>>>> use we are losing many students to homeschool and private. I
>>>> f we say anything we will get bad appraisals. Who else is do
>>>> ing this Workshop Model stuff?
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