In a message dated 7/21/2007 9:24:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our district does that with the Reading First mentality, especially in the primary grades. When the literacy coaches (reading police) I don't teach in a reading first school, I am the one with fidelty to HM. We also has a literacy coach last year who we referred to as the lesson plan police. She would come in with her little clip board to check your objectives-which had to be written daily some where for the children to read. (strangely enough,when I went to school the teachers didn't write objectives on the board and I wasn't traumatized by it). I got smart about what I wrote for my objectives and made them deliberatley vague and generic so that I didn't have to rewrite them all each week. I specifically asked her one time if my higher level students could read a novel during small group time-even the ones that come with the basal-and she said, "Why would you want to do that"? My reply, "So we could read some authentic literature". She told me that I couldn't do that. UGH!!! We are also not allowed to integrate any other subjects into our literacy block-90 minutes + 30 additional minutes for writing. This leaves very little time for Math, Social Studies, Science and Health. I wonder what teaching was like when teachers got to use their own brains. Rosie ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
