| 1. | 3/19/2008 5:20:00 PM | My answer would depend upon knowing if this has been an effective strategy in our district overall... |
| 2. | 3/18/2008 2:10:00 PM | I agree I think that this if very important to students and parents, but here again this has barely started to be implemented in our curriculums and we are pushing to add other ideas. There is less and less time to prepare for classes and research and develop materials for our own classes and speciality areas. I here all the time about people teaching in areas where they have minimal knowledge and backgroud of the subject area and are expected to make their classes interesting and prepare their students with information and knowledge that is accurate and well developed. Oh! Please do not give me the response that this is part of my job outside of my regular school day and that I or anyone else should dedicate their lives to their jobs. This might work for some people, but I don't think it does a lot for mental or emotional health and well being. |
| 3. | 3/18/2008 2:48:00 PM | we need to have more resources and programs in place for the studnets who are not meeting the standards. Right now there just ins't a lot to offer a studnet sho is not meeting the criteria. The pacing we have set is so time orientated that we do not have time to reteach if we are to get through the curriculum. The kids suffer when we have to move at a faster pace because we have to get through the curriculum. What good is getting throught the curriculum if the students are not mastering what we are doing? |
| 4. | 3/18/2008 4:17:00 PM | Kind of goes hand in hand with differentiation. |
| 5. | 3/19/2008 1:22:00 PM | It's too bad that the work has been at the expense of instructional time. |
| 6. | 3/19/2008 1:50:00 PM | This makes a lot of sense to me. |
| 7. | 3/19/2008 4:54:00 PM | Slow down the amount of programs or ideas so that teachers have the time to implement them properly. It seems that the district keeps adding new items but forgets about the other strategies in place. |
| 8. | 3/19/2008 5:41:00 PM | We need to ease off on this for a while and learn to work with the new things we've implemented. There's too much too fast and none of it is getting done as well as it should. We are being turned into "jacks of all trades, but masters of none." This is especially difficult for those of us who teach in two different course areas. Time to meet with and share ideas with grade level teachers is often taken up with IEPs and parent meetings, leaving little time to learn from each other. I want to do the very best that I can but feel I'm left with only time to do a "half-assed" job. |
| 9. | 3/19/2008 7:20:00 PM | This should be a tautology in education. Do we really need to establish a strategic goal in the area?!? |