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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks all, appreciate the feedback (and understand that my feelings were not realistic). We are at that point where we feel like there is nothing productive that can come from DS being with this teacher for the remainder of the year; it's that serious. In any other subject we would just shrug and move on but the foundational nature of math makes it hard to take that approach. Tutoring 1-2x a week doesn't seem good enough. We didn't want the meeting with the AP, but it was suggested by the counselor.[/quote]

If tutoring twice a week isn’t helping, this problem seems bigger than just a single teacher. [/quote]

It's mainly been 1x a week, took awhile to find a good tutor with availability. [b]The problem is the teacher literally is not teaching/providing zero instruction most days.[/b][/quote]

That is a very odd claim about a teacher and does not ring true at all.  [/quote]

OP here; I'd likely feel the same way if I read this but this is what has been reported by my DC (and others)...kids who in other subjects will clearly say we worked on xyz lab, teacher taught this. [/quote]

I believe you.  Quick question.  Is this teacher a follower of the Modern Classroom approach?  My DS had a teacher that sounds very similar to this one for Pre-Calc.  She literally never got up in front of the class and taught anything.  She used pre-recorded videos, sometimes of her, sometimes not, doing a few examples.  Then she would record herself filling out a notes packet while remaining seated the entire time.  They would do knowledge checks on the computer and could move on to the next set of videos in the Unit when they passed the Knowledge Check.  If you hadn't made it through them by the test, oh well.  He never scored above a C- on any of the tests.  It was such BS.  To retake the test, you had to complete the original test perfectly, do a remediation packet perfectly, then retake the test.  It was such an insane amount of work that if you did it, you were forever behind in a cycle of failure and remediation packets.  So most kids just took the Cs.  Complete BS.[/quote]

Teacher here with 25 years of experience. I regularly attend professional development opportunities and I take continuing ed courses at night. I also mentor new teachers.

I have no clue what the “Modern Classroom” approach to teaching is and your description above simply sounds like a teacher who is checked out.

Are you suggesting this is some big educational movement? [/quote]

I am sorry to say it is an educational movement and not a checked out teacher … as far as I can tell it is being adopted by schools with a naive belief in ed tech and who feel like it allows kids to “move at their own pace” in a classroom with mixed abilities. It also connects to an unwillingness to track kids at all, even in MS/HS math.

An example: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/mastery-based-self-paced-modern-classrooms/

It is purportedly “mastery based” and “self-paced”. It does not work at all. [/quote]

Yeah, I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it. Our district is all about it. It’s dumb.

But back to the original point, the teacher should be included in the meeting.[/quote]

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