| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:32:00 PM | For ALL learners. |
| 2. | 2/6/2008 8:45:00 PM | Will need support to make this happen. |
| 3. | 2/14/2008 9:52:00 PM | Incredibly important in order to effectively teach every student, but difficult to do without help. |
| 4. | 3/5/2008 1:23:00 PM | This is possible to accomplish when teachers are given adequate planning time and are not overwhelmed by assessments. We need to abandon some of our old responsibilities in order to take on new ones. It just seems that we are expected to do more and more with each passing year, and nothing is taken away from our duties. I am concerned about the mental health of our teaching staff. I would like to see the report card change from quarterly reporting to semester reporting. The rubrics are written by semester. It only makes sense to grade them at semester then, rather than having to guess at their grades at quarter time. I feel foolish explaining to parents that I am guessing at their child's grade and that it might change at semster time. |
| 5. | 3/6/2008 4:52:00 PM | I think that teachers at the elementary level really try this. The hard part is that there is so little time in our schedules that it feels like we have less and less time to get to know our students and to get them to know each other. We are working so hard to get “the academics” into their heads, that we don’t have time to spend having them work on activities that build community or a sense of belonging. Adding extra lessons does not do this. At this level, group activities, projects, and even sharing time allows this to happen. All of our time is spent completing lessons that someone else tells us to teach. It is getting harder and harder to get to know who our students really are. |
| 6. | 3/6/2008 6:40:00 PM | Smaller class sizes need to be kept in mind. Some classes may be full of high needs kids-so one child may act like 5. Differentiation works only if the teacher has planning time to create materials to support student needs. |
| 7. | 3/6/2008 6:38:00 PM | We give kids test and then nothing is done to help them! It is no child left untested! |
| 8. | 3/6/2008 8:33:00 PM | See comments for goal #1. |
| 9. | 3/6/2008 10:37:00 PM | As one teacher, I already do what I can with the time I'm given to prepare. Will there be more reading and math aides available to help us meet this goal? |
| 10. | 3/6/2008 10:51:00 PM | I feel like we already do this: guided reading, writer's workshop, math pre-tests/post test, leveled readers in social studies... we've got this down, it's just finding enough TIME to PLAN for these differentiation strategies to be effective for our students. |