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[quote=Anonymous][quote]None of my teacher colleagues thought phonics was boring. There is nothing boring about seeing a child read for the first time. It's not boring to the kid and it's not boring for the teacher. [b]As usual, people who didn't completely understand kids, child development and the science of reading made the decisions. [/b]These programs basically encouraged students to guess based on pictures and context. They should be ashamed of themselves but yet they still try to push their methods despite all evidence to the contrary.[/quote]

Yep. As a teacher who worked in very low-income, low test score schools, I was constantly observed, evaluated, and critiqued on the way I implemented the reading program my district required me to follow. Though I felt phonics instruction was a missing component, I was not in a position to make a single decision about what training I got in reading instruction nor in what I taught or how--neither was my principal. It all came from the district level. It was clear to us teachers that the instruction wasn't meeting the needs of the students, but if we didn't follow the program given to us, we would be poorly evaluated and lose our jobs.[/quote]

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