This year our principal has opted to send our weakest students to a room w/ three teacher's assistants. Prior to this, the highest students were sent while classroom tchrs worked w/lowest five students (30 min.daily). I am strongly opposed to this move. With a reading specialist degree, and nat. board candidate in literacy, I know that the at-risk students need me, their classroom teacher. I have a vested interest in their learning and I know about their interests and learning styles. I certainly have studied the field of education, esp. reading more that than the tchr aides. I will say their classroom offers a nice variety of materials (that look as new today as they did five years ago). Anyway, I need research regarding the importance of at- risk, weak learners benefiting from instruction from their teacher rather than a teacher's assistant. Thank you, Ashley
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Cathleen Cunningham <ccca...@gmail.com>wrote: > I few weeks ago I wrote to everyone about my situation during my reading > block. Short story . . . we were > told that the students shouldn't be just reading during the reading block, > they should be working at their > station, etc. So I lexile leveled ALL of my books (over 500), gave the > students their level, and a journal. > Told then if they have a book THEY BETTER HAVE THEIR JOURNALS! Anyway my > question is this... first I love journaling with the kids! I have a few > due > each day and just write a > little but my question is . .. should I chat with them about their grammar, > puncuation, etc? Sometimes > I want to take my purple pen and make the corrections. So who journals > with > their kids . .. ? Do you > make corrections? I've been really impressed with their responses to their > books. > > Thanks for your help! > Cathleen > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Kelley Dean _______________________________________________ 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.
