Reply to APS Lucy Calkins- how does this happen?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS Lucy Calkins- how does this happen? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the original question: Yes, teachers do have autonomy. However, planning lessons takes enormous resources. If you throw out a packaged curriculum, there is no time to write on me from scratch and produce all of the materials. Also, there are pacing and accountability structures built into school and department management. If one classroom covers parts of speech in two weeks, another classroom at the same grade level can’t decide to omit it or to linger on the topic for two months.

Do ask your school if they are supplementing the reading curriculum. Do they have a phonics-based program (not the Units of Study Calkins phonics supplement)? What explicit strategies are they teaching for comprehension? Is there a spelling component to the curriculum? Is that based on lists of random words or on a phonics program with a clear scope and sequence?[/quote]

Many parents would never think to ask about whether their school is supplementing the reading curriculum--who would think that the schools don't know how to teach children to read by now.  If there is no supplementation and the curriculum is low quality, what recourse do parents have (especially those who cannot teach their children themselves or move to a better school)?

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics