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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are spot on, at least in MCPS.  Seems teachers are so focused on behavioral issues they can’t/don’t/won’t give the skills we were taught as kids.  For the dyslexic kids MCPS is a horror show and always has been...they write them off, pure and simple.

[b]Broadly, I fault the teacher preparation colleges - especially for reading issues we’ve seen recently.  (Phonics wins). Also the end of direct instruction. Many teachers call it ‘drill and kill’.  Well drill and kill is the way to teach most things for the majority of folks of all backgrounds and socio-economic status.[/b]

You can tell the county’s talk of and action on equity is hollow when if they really wanted to close the achievement gap they would move to direct instruction model. Huge Federal study from 1970s still holds today.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1072120.pdf[/quote]

Teacher here, and I blame the the philosophy found in teacher training to be at the bottom at most of the ills in education. It seems like they only promote the most complicated, round about ways of doing things. Direct instruction is like a dirty word. Yet, why is it that anywhere else when people have to learn something, like say at a school staff meeting, the speaker comes out and directly says it. We’re not all put into groups and expected to discover the material on our own. [/quote]

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