1st grade sheet is titled "Cloze [sic] the gap"

[Anonymous]

Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

They don't want you trying to explain it to your child because so many parents contradict the (better) methods used at school. Haven't you seen the belligerent Facebook posts/memes about Common Core from idiot parents who don't understand all they learned in the 70s and 80s were algorithms?

Not PP. I was taught in the 70s/80s and I majored in math. I bitch about CC because of the trash that's showing up in the MCPS HS courses as they roll out and I do it to support my daughter's teachers who have all told me they don't know why this is happening. Yes, some not all of my son's ES teachers have been on board but they aren't seeing the consequences. I don't waist my time on Facebook but there is plenty to be concerned about in the MCPS math curriculum.

OMG! You don't waist your time!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

They don't want you trying to explain it to your child because so many parents contradict the (better) methods used at school. Haven't you seen the belligerent Facebook posts/memes about Common Core from idiot parents who don't understand all they learned in the 70s and 80s were algorithms?

Not PP. I was taught in the 70s/80s and I majored in math. I bitch about CC because of the trash that's showing up in the MCPS HS courses as they roll out and I do it to support my daughter's teachers who have all told me they don't know why this is happening. Yes, some not all of my son's ES teachers have been on board but they aren't seeing the consequences. I don't waist my time on Facebook but there is plenty to be concerned about in the MCPS math curriculum.

OMG! You don't waist your time!!!!

She sure does WAIST her time. DCUM is a colossal WAIST of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

I think the whole issue is petty, but in a perfect world the worksheet would have had a different title as the pun should mean nothing to a child and it's doubtful the teacher explained the technique. It appears they were taken from a one time workbook by that title and altogether in a book whose only purpose is this type of exercise, using the term is appropriate and the pun is cute. But individually it's clearly a source of confusion and there's really no reason a parent should google individual words in a worksheet title. This only makes sense to someone who already knows it's a technical term. Asking on the forum is just as reasonable and OPs question wasn't inflammatory. My DC is in 9th and I know she used these worksheets (only remember because my husband was amused by the first name Cherry don't remember discussing "cloze") so they are pretty ubiquitous in MCPS and maybe no place else, forum users may be more informed than google in this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

As we have determined, cloze is not misspelled. However "close technique" is not the correct term for the worksheet.

I did not criticize the teacher, MCPS, or education in general. I did criticize the use of a pun on a worksheet for 6-year-olds. A parent should not need to Google terms for 1st grade lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

As we have determined, cloze is not misspelled. However "close technique" is not the correct term for the worksheet.

I did not criticize the teacher, MCPS, or education in general. I did criticize the use of a pun on a worksheet for 6-year-olds. A parent should not need to Google terms for 1st grade lessons.

You seem to be confused about your role here. You're not in an oversight capacity of the teacher and the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

The jump to criticize the teacher is the default in this area it seems.

I teach MS SS in MCPS. Home today with walking pneumonia Our curriculum introduces many unfamiliar vocabulary terms. Plus, as students read primary sources, they may encounter words with non-standardized spellings. I'm at a W feeder school. Three years ago, I assigned excerpts of core documents from the American Revolutionary period. A concerned parent scanned in her child's copy with "my spelling errors" circled in red ink and emailed it with note that I needed to spell-check before handing out materials because it made me look uneducated and would lessen the students' confidence in me. I replied thanking her, included a link to NARA's version of the documents, and suggested that she notify National Archives that they needed to handle the typos they had on display because it would lessen the visitors' confidence in the US government. Not a peep out of her for the rest of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

As we have determined, cloze is not misspelled. However "close technique" is not the correct term for the worksheet.

I did not criticize the teacher, MCPS, or education in general. I did criticize the use of a pun on a worksheet for 6-year-olds. A parent should not need to Google terms for 1st grade lessons.

You seem to be confused about your role here. You're not in an oversight capacity of the teacher and the school.

No parent NEEDED to Google cloze for their DC to complete the worksheet. Only a parent looking at the worksheet and obsessed with the idea that the teacher or MCPS made a typo would focus on the z anyway. Parents concerned about reinforcing reading comprehension just had their DC complete the activity and moved on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

They don't want you trying to explain it to your child because so many parents contradict the (better) methods used at school. Haven't you seen the belligerent Facebook posts/memes about Common Core from idiot parents who don't understand all they learned in the 70s and 80s were algorithms?

Not PP. I was taught in the 70s/80s and I majored in math. I bitch about CC because of the trash that's showing up in the MCPS HS courses as they roll out and I do it to support my daughter's teachers who have all told me they don't know why this is happening. Yes, some not all of my son's ES teachers have been on board but they aren't seeing the consequences. I don't waist my time on Facebook but there is plenty to be concerned about in the MCPS math curriculum.

OMG! You don't waist your time!!!!

She sure does WAIST her time. DCUM is a colossal WAIST of time.

I bet she waists her DC's teachers' time, too. I wish I could read some of the emails she sends.

[Anonymous]

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She sure does WAIST her time. DCUM is a colossal WAIST of time.

To bee fare, while DCUM is a waist of thyme, it isn't a total waist of thyme. Every now and than I learn something on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I read this ignorant post and think, "THIS is why teachers feel constantly under attack. They ARE constantly under attack."

No wonder few people want to go into the profession and so many people leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. “Cloze” has been used for years in education. When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.

But it's interesting to see how OP reacted, jumping to the conclusion that it was a misspelling. Parents jump to the same conclusions about the way they teach math now. All these parents, thinking they know better than trained teachers, challenging them at every turn, prattling on about Pearson, etc. Like parents are education experts or something. It's truly baffling.

Look, every profession comes with some terms of art that are only used amongst those professionals. If you don't like your professionalism being questioned, don't spill the jargon on a first grade assignment. You need to distinguish between when you are teaching the students and when you are learning about teaching.

I'm not a teacher. I'm a parent. I'm just annoyed as FUCK at all these other parents who carry on like they know more than the teachers, second-guessing them at every turn. You should see the hysteria over Common Core math. All these ignorant parents upset and taking to social media to profess outrage over the fact that aren't teaching math the way they were taught, not realizing that in fact they didn't really learn anything about number sense.

The arrogance is palpable.

I'm confused about your arrogance. Why do you assume that the parents who think 2.0 math is silly "didn't really learn anything about number sense"? I think 2.0 math is silly and makes it confusing for kids when it doesn't need to be. I have an advanced degree which required a lot of very advanced math. Much more than I could do if I had no "number sense". Is there any possibility for any humility on the part of people promoting 2.0? Or no, because you have a degree in education, you know the best way to teach math. Even if, on its face, it seems absurd. And even if it has taken a lot of kids who used to like math and made them hate it. Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching. Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.

As we have determined, cloze is not misspelled. However "close technique" is not the correct term for the worksheet.

I did not criticize the teacher, MCPS, or education in general. I did criticize the use of a pun on a worksheet for 6-year-olds. A parent should not need to Google terms for 1st grade lessons.

You seem to be confused about your role here. You're not in an oversight capacity of the teacher and the school.

If it's a public school, then yes she is. You seem to be very confused about democracy. We are all in an oversight capacity of the teacher and the school. We all vote the Board of Ed in and out. We, as parents, absolutely DO need to make sure that our kids are being taught properly. Does this one silly use of jargon on a worksheet merit any real attention? Of course not. Even if it were a typo, as an isolated mistake it wouldn't matter. But saying that parents aren't in an "oversight capacity" is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. “Cloze” has been used for years in education. When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.

But it's interesting to see how OP reacted, jumping to the conclusion that it was a misspelling. Parents jump to the same conclusions about the way they teach math now. All these parents, thinking they know better than trained teachers, challenging them at every turn, prattling on about Pearson, etc. Like parents are education experts or something. It's truly baffling.

Look, every profession comes with some terms of art that are only used amongst those professionals. If you don't like your professionalism being questioned, don't spill the jargon on a first grade assignment. You need to distinguish between when you are teaching the students and when you are learning about teaching.

I'm not a teacher. I'm a parent. I'm just annoyed as FUCK at all these other parents who carry on like they know more than the teachers, second-guessing them at every turn. You should see the hysteria over Common Core math. All these ignorant parents upset and taking to social media to profess outrage over the fact that aren't teaching math the way they were taught, not realizing that in fact they didn't really learn anything about number sense.

The arrogance is palpable.

And your ignorance is palpable. Every 20 years or so educators introduce a new approach to math, but it always fails and they end up going back to the old way. Know why kids in mcps can't do math? There are several reasons, but one obvious one is that most schools make the classroom teacher quickly cycle through three to five groups of kids on different levels--so kids get ten minutes of rapid fire instruction and then go back to their seats to work independently or (play) with a group for the rest of the group. That doesn't happen in private school...where kids tend to succeed. And race and income play into it as well (because that impacts family and housing stability and access to resources in general). That's what the data shows.

+1000

[Anonymous]

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If it's a public school, then yes she is. You seem to be very confused about democracy. We are all in an oversight capacity of the teacher and the school. We all vote the Board of Ed in and out. We, as parents, absolutely DO need to make sure that our kids are being taught properly. Does this one silly use of jargon on a worksheet merit any real attention? Of course not. Even if it were a typo, as an isolated mistake it wouldn't matter. But saying that parents aren't in an "oversight capacity" is wrong.

Well, no, we're not. We (meaning everybody, not just parents) vote for the Board of Education. The Board of Education hires the superintendent. The superintendent runs the school system. The teacher does not work for you; the teacher works for the school system.