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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teacher is supposed to be provided with everyone she/he needs to instruct the students. She/he is not. That is the problem.[/quote]

I agree this is the larger problem. The teacher needs a published book edited by professional editors.[/quote]

You have no idea how many teachers fight this though. They want to teach what they want to teach.

Have you not seen the thousand posters from all over the US complaining about teaching to the test and how awful Pearson is? How cookie cutter a bought curriculum is? No one can speak in shades of grey anymore. It's like they've completely forgotten that teachers used to have curriculum materials given to them AND they had the option of providing their own.

I remember being in a meeting with the reading resource teacher to find out that she spent 80% of her time creating reading lesson plans for teachers. She showed me one she had been working all day on for writing a fairy tale as if that had never been done before in 4th grade. I asked "aren't you helping students with reading?" and the answer was that most of the individual reading help was done by the teacher and not the reading resource. The reading resource was there to support the teachers. True story. [/quote]

20:08 again. I remember one more detail. The fairy tale was also teaching dialogue. Needed an entire day planning session to produce a lesson plan for teaching a fairy tale with dialogue.

I blame the teachers. All the teachers at our school are given the option of having curriculum materials given to them and they choose not to use them. We are an AAP center and the teachers use none of the AAP materials. It's infuriating. We have history books sitting on the side of the classrooms opened less than 3 times a year. The materials they provide in their place are not better and take more time.[/quote]

We get total crap from the school. I create and update my own material to supplement the outdated textbook. My methods and materials are supported by current neuroscience research on how students learn. I love parents who tell me how to do my job. ?[/quote]

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