Reply to Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]Teachers are told what to do even when they don't agree with it. I am a teacher and I am told I have to go small groups in both math and reading. Okay, fine but I am also told to use nearly the entire math and reading blocks to do so. So my students spend most of their day in small groups. They are first graders and most of them do not have the maturity to do their work rather than talk or fool around. We offer incentives of course but I don't agree that I should spend most of my day doing this. My students might get 15 minutes of my time once or twice a day and the rest of the time they are on their own.[/quote]

Taught first grade back in the day when we had control over how we taught our classes.  Some years, I did more small group instruction than others, but I always did large group instruction, as well.
Math was large group with extra help for those struggling and extra work for those who needed a challenge.  Reading was reading groups in small groups=--but, we always did additional work with the whole group.  I also did whole group phonics, but phonics was also included in reading groups.  Spelling was whole group.
The morning always started with large group--writing a story of some type on the board and some type of social interaction.  It was not directed from above, but responsive to the kids I was teaching.  The writing was generally about whatever social studies or science unit was going on at the time.

The pendulum will swing back.[/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