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Today, I pushed into a sixth grade class and the classroom teacher actually spoke to me. She asked me to do the "shared reading" portion of the reading program. She handed me a novel which was way over the kids heads (not just my ESL kids), and lo and behold....I read a full chapter to the class. My ESL kids, who sit in the back of the classroom, just sat there staring at me. Today was the biggest waste of time I've had in nearly 30 years of teaching. Why am I going along with this?
LbP On 2/17/10, alison wrote: > Today, I pushed into a sixth grade class and the classroom > teacher actually spoke to me. She asked me to do the > "shared reading" portion of the reading program. She handed > me a novel which was way over the kids heads (not just my > ESL kids), and lo and behold....I read a full chapter to > the cla...See More
Feb 17, 2010
alison No, we don't have a common prep. I don't need to do that anyway since I'm not really an ESL teacher anymore. This isn't about ESL. This is about supporting this "balanced literacy" reading program which is a failing reading program. We are being set up to fail and that's the truth.

On 2/17/10, LbP wrote: > On 2/17/10, alison wrote: &g...See More
Feb 18, 2010


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