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[quote=Anonymous]The PP talking about being expected to teach mini-lessons in FCPS is spot-on. The state objectives for teaching parts of speech and punctuation etc. are clearly outlined, but there aren’t materials. The bigger issue that I have seen in the last 12-15 years is that every teacher in a grade level in elementary is expected to teach the same lessons. The teachers with the most “power” in the grade level make those decisions. So when I as a veteran teacher but new to a school said at a planning meeting with my grade level that we needed to start parts of speech, and the other teachers said it wasn’t necessary, I was overruled. The brand-new teacher didn’t know any better, and I ended up teaching my own lessons on the topic, knowing I’d get dinged if admin found out I was doing something different. I’ll never forget the year the grade level teachers told me we could choose which health unit we wanted as a group for the year and the others could be skipped. They honestly thought that.

Parents need to clearly ask principals about direct instruction for the language arts objectives that are listed on the VDOE website but aren’t explicitly taught. Principals don’t like negative parent feedback.[/quote]

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