How is Stone Ridge doing these days?

[Anonymous]

This is actually interesting for older kids..puts them in the educational process and has them work through initial questions at home. Why is this bad? Again..not a teacher but as a lay person..sounds interesting. Am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Stone Ridge is a pretty good school. Stone Ridge as a whole is NOT going towards this "reverse teaching" method. A lot of the teachers actually teach! In every class, you will always have some students who feel like the teacher doesn't teach and some students who love the teacher and learn a lot.

To the PP with a daughter spending 7 hours on homework: Please speak with the teachers about this. 7 hours of homework every night is ridiculous. Are other students in the class spending a similar amount of time on homework?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you all for your very thoughtful and insightful comments. We will also consider Holton Arms and perhaps Holy Cross. A catholic school like SR would be nice for us since we are raising DD in the Catholic faith and attending CCD classes are not all that fun.

To the PP, is the reverse teaching limited only to math, history, and languages?
Could you comment on what type of software, if any, is used in language classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flipped classroom? What are they using for the home teaching pieces?

OP, for what it is worth, my DD is the same age as yours and also TAG identified. She shadowed at SR last year and really liked the girls and the teachers but she said the academics in the lower school seemed no different than what she was working on in her previous school where she was pretty bored and coasting. That's one day though, but since no one seems to be giving you much else I thought I'd offer it.

I'm the poster that said it's "eh". My DD comes home with hw to do however the lesson has not been taught in class. So, she takes the notes on logarithms in her notebook from the book, and then does the assigned hw. This is okay to an extent. But in class the teacher only goes over homework, and does not necessarily "explain" and teach. I have met with the math teacher and she really only sits at her desk during class. My DD was angry earlier in the year but now she uses Khan Academy and other Youtube videos to teach her the material for math. It is this way in her Spanish, and History classes.

So why are you paying all that money for DD to teach herself? Homeschooling is much cheaper.

This was my first thought too. I was home schooled. Good experience. But I sure wouldn't pay a school $27,000 to send me off to do something I can for myself, unsupervised, in a public library or on my couch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flipped classroom? What are they using for the home teaching pieces?

OP, for what it is worth, my DD is the same age as yours and also TAG identified. She shadowed at SR last year and really liked the girls and the teachers but she said the academics in the lower school seemed no different than what she was working on in her previous school where she was pretty bored and coasting. That's one day though, but since no one seems to be giving you much else I thought I'd offer it.

I'm the poster that said it's "eh". My DD comes home with hw to do however the lesson has not been taught in class. So, she takes the notes on logarithms in her notebook from the book, and then does the assigned hw. This is okay to an extent. But in class the teacher only goes over homework, and does not necessarily "explain" and teach. I have met with the math teacher and she really only sits at her desk during class. My DD was angry earlier in the year but now she uses Khan Academy and other Youtube videos to teach her the material for math. It is this way in her Spanish, and History classes.

So why are you paying all that money for DD to teach herself? Homeschooling is much cheaper.

This was my first thought too. I was home schooled. Good experience. But I sure wouldn't pay a school $27,000 to send me off to do something I can for myself, unsupervised, in a public library or on my couch.

To clarify: I think it is good to have children attempting to self-teach, then going over the material in school. But if the second step to this process is not happening, or happening very poorly -- that is, if the student is just being made responsible for the whole process -- then they do not need the school at all.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they are trying to teach these students that they can teach themselves. Knowing how to learn about something is very valuable that you can use for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP with the DD who had 7 hrs of hw last school year.
This year she is a 12th grader. The reverse model is prevalent in her science class. They recieve the info on one day by email, and the quiz is the next day. After the quiz, they are taught the material. So pretty much, DD is just memorizing info and regurgitating it back on the quiz, and THEN they "learn".

Yeah, looking back. Langley would have been cheaper.

[Anonymous]

PP that is terrible. I opened this thread because I have a catholic elementary kid (not one of the schools mentioned). I was subjected to reverse math in high school in MCPS 20 years ago and hated it. I thought this method was disproven. I was part of a pilot program. The kids who did well got taught my their parents at home. I nearly failed the class. With traditional teaching, I was a top student

[Anonymous]

"LAngley would have been cheaper" PP here.

Yes, I don't see the point of reverse teaching. Like why is it necessary? Can't the teachers just idk.... TEACH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flipped classroom? What are they using for the home teaching pieces?

OP, for what it is worth, my DD is the same age as yours and also TAG identified. She shadowed at SR last year and really liked the girls and the teachers but she said the academics in the lower school seemed no different than what she was working on in her previous school where she was pretty bored and coasting. That's one day though, but since no one seems to be giving you much else I thought I'd offer it.

I'm the poster that said it's "eh". My DD comes home with hw to do however the lesson has not been taught in class. So, she takes the notes on logarithms in her notebook from the book, and then does the assigned hw. This is okay to an extent. But in class the teacher only goes over homework, and does not necessarily "explain" and teach. I have met with the math teacher and she really only sits at her desk during class. My DD was angry earlier in the year but now she uses Khan Academy and other Youtube videos to teach her the material for math. It is this way in her Spanish, and History classes.

This is how math was taught at ncs in the 90s. I was a mediocre math student and it was bad for me. I needed more instruction.

[Anonymous]

Glad to see this. SR is so rarely mentioned in discussions of DMV schools.

[Anonymous]

That's really sucky

[Anonymous]

Just curious, are parents pushing back against this type of nonsense reverse teaching? Are there only certain teachers who use this method? We will be looking there in a few years.

[Anonymous]

PP, yes they are but the heads of the Upper school continue to say that the teachers are still "learning" how to flip teach.

[Anonymous]

Not liking it.