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[quote=Anonymous]One more thing...the bottom line on Curriculum 2.0 and any other curriculum that comes out is that there is no curriculum that can deliver a great education without resources or funding to provide more individuaized instruction. Good elementary school instruction requires funding teacher aides and hiring teaching specialists in different subjects not trying to design a magic curriculum that allows one teacher to be the only instructor for 25-30 kids for all subjects and achieve uniform test scores. Promethus boards will not do this. Better worksheets will not do this.

Furthermore, all kids should be assessed not just on what level they reach at the end of the year but on how many intervals they master from day 1 to the last day of class. If a kid comes in with mastery of the levels marked as appropriate for the end of the year, he shouldn't just be expected to pass those same levels at the end of the year. To get an O or A or whatever label they choose to assign, he should master X number of levels above where he started. The same is true for the student how comes in several levels below, he should be given extra instruction to master X number of intervals.

I really feel that in MCPS we are all teaching our kids everything that will be covered the next year, feeling great that out kids are so smart, letting the kids sit around 6 hours a day filling our worksheets, and letting administrators pat themselves on the back for doing a great job while the kids are not learning squwat about how to learn. I do think that the teachers get this and shake their heads but with no flexibility and no teacher aides to teach students appropriately, what are they going to do?[/quote]

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