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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After our school became Title 1, some teachers left because they did not have the special credentials to teach at a Title 1 school. I believe it's up to the teachers to obtain the credentials themselves.  Year after year, when the gap students would not score well, the teachers had to go through more training. Wash, rinse, repeat. At least Title 1 funding paid for that. I'm surprised you didn't get burned out, OP.

When my youngest was in lower ES, the teacher needed volunteers to read to the children. When I arrived, I was told it was for those who didn't have native English at home. And, if a student had native English (smaller %age of the class), I was told to read just a little, then "send them on their way". I wondered if this was the case when I was not there - just focus the attention where it was needed and send the rest on their way![/quote]

I subbed as an assistant at our title I school in the ESL class many years ago. It was horrible. Granted, an occasional sub assistant is maybe a waste of air--it was in the teacher's view. She sat all the kids around a table and showed them a Disney cartoon (actually, class "Smokin Mickey" where giant rolls up a hayfield and smokes it. . . kids were 6-7 years old). Kids just sat quietly throughout. One little Kurdish girl sitting next to the white board, there's a dry erase marker there, after 20 min of Disney she picks it up and makes a tiny circle on the whiteboard, teacher comes over, sees it, little girl exiled to other side of the room with head down on desk for 20 min. So depressing.

OTOH the title I teacher had minored in German and did his student teaching in Germany, there was a student teacher who was a Spanish minor, and another Kurdish child with cerebral palsy was being taught ASL so my son's kindergarten teacher decided it was an opportunity to teach all the kids some of each language (there was a Bosnian boy who was fluent in 5 languages, none of them English, but spoke German).[/quote]

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