Pat With all due respect, I don't agree. I work with the strugglers and I have to believe that what I do can improve their learning and accelerate it. What is the point of putting them in a program and pulling them out of the classroom if they don't start to catch up! If they don't make a years growth in a year's time, they just fall further and further behind. An intervention should be targeted and allow kids to use their strengths to remediate or work around their learning gaps. It should be DIFFERENT than the regular classroom but the standards need to remain high. It I regularly get a year and six months growth in my interventions for many kids. If they are very far behind, it will take a couple years of intervention to catch them up. When you start with low expectations, you consign these kids to always be behind. Am I successful with all kids??? Not by a long shot. But you have to BELIEVE that you can accelerate their learning in order for these kids to stand a chance. Jennifer In a message dated 7/22/2007 5:59:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This never makes sense to me. The kids in these programs are ones who have never made a year's growth which is why they are performing below grade level and are receiving additional services so now to expect them to progress more than a year in a year's time is not reasonable. Pat - NY ************************************** 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.
