Reply to VA math changes - ways to speak out

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "VA math changes - ways to speak out"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Group work doesn't automatically mean making kids "responsible" for other kids' comprehension or tying grades to other members... You drew that conclusion yourself. 
[/quote]

I didn't draw any conclusions.  I noted that the Riverside study, which is being used as a citation for how well detracking has worked in the past, made kids responsible for other kids' comprehension.  It doesn't mean that VDOE will do the same, but they are heavily pushing group work as a model, and they're also heavily relying upon studies like the Riverside one to justify their view that detracking will benefit all students.

This was the quote from the article.

From the first link: 
“ A major part of the equitable results attained at Railside was the serious way in which teachers expected 
students to be responsible for each other’s learning. Many schools employ group work which, by its nature, brings with it an element of interdependence, but Railside teachers went beyond this to ensure that students took their responsibility to each other very seriously. One way in which teachers nurtured a feeling of responsibility was through the assessment system. For example, teachers occasionally graded the work of a group by rating the quality of the conversations groups had. In addition, the teachers occasionally gave group tests, which took several formats. In one version, students worked through a test together, but the teachers graded only one of the individual papers and that grade stood as the grade for all the students in the group. A third way in which responsibility was encouraged was through the practice of asking one student in a group to answer a follow-up question after a group had worked on something. If the student could not answer the question, the teacher would leave the group to further discussion before returning to ask the same student again. In the intervening time, it was the group’s responsibility to help the student learn the mathematics they needed to answer the question.” [/quote]

Yes, my bad, the Riverside example did include tying grades to others and group responsibility.

In other collaborative learning materials, these weren't best practices.

Has VDOE explicitly referenced Riverside? 
[/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