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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child was having issues so we had an evaluator sit in the classroom.

They evaluator had a list of 5 things for the teacher (not the child, not the parent) to change.[/quote]

You paid a person to tell you your kid was perfect and it was all the teacher at fault?  Got it. [/quote]

No I paid a person to tell me my child was dyslexic.

When she observed the classroom she made suggestions to the teacher (and principal). The design of the desks, the order of the classes, the use of the board vs lecture, etc.

The teacher wasn’t as defensive as you she used all the suggestions to make her classroom a better environment for learning.

But you fo demonstrate his the teacher can be the problem and simple suggestions to improve are net with hostility.[/quote]

This is hilarious. So many of those things are out if a teacher’s control.  You think a teacher gets to unilaterally pick what order to teach classes. It has to be coordinated with specialists and the school. If the entire school teaches math before recess your observer’s recommendation that the teacher teaches reading first is laughable. The design of of the desks? Often times the leadership is dictating how they want desks arranged. If a teacher want to use rows of desks that wouldn’t be allowed at some schools. The teacher probably was relieved when your child left the class at the end of the year. [/quote]

This anecdote really highlights the problem with education. The parent assumes the teacher is the problem and brings in an expert, somebody without teaching experience who is unfamiliar with the operations of an actual classroom. This expert doesn’t know the many conflicting priorities a teacher needs to meet on a daily basis. Would I have an “expert” sit in on a doctor’s appointment with me? No. I assume my doctor has the training and knowledge to be the expert in that environment. Why can’t we give teachers that same respect? I’m a general education teacher who is about to spend my whole summer in supplemental training programs. And for what? To have an “expert” second guess what I do in my classroom? [/quote]

This post is hilariously ignorant.

PARENTS! Listen to teachers do something with your problem child!

Okay, I paid $3000 for an evaluation like you suggested which includes evaluation the child in the classroom.

PARENTS! Don’t use experts !

Like WTF! You want parents to take your feedback and get help or not? Sorry the observation found flaws in your teaching but if you have such a low self esteem that you can’t receive feedback maybe you shouldn’t teach.[/quote]

Wow. Let’s take a slow, methodical look at this anecdote. The parent brings in an expert that makes a medical diagnosis. Was this a learning specialist, one who knows about dyslexia, or was this an education specialist, one who is experienced in pedagogy? Either way: Instead of saying what the student or family can do to support the child’s needs, the only changes mentioned are what the teacher needs to do. The teacher, who is responsible for 25+ other students, also doesn’t have the flexibility to even make some of the recommended changes. Somebody who understands how schools are run would know that. The person the family hired had one goal: find what will support that ONE child. The teacher can and would certainly accept recommendations, but the ones listed in the initial post are impractical. The teacher’s schedule and seating arrangements were already set to accommodate a variety of needs. If the hired expert had suggested accommodations that the parents, student, and teacher could implement together, then that would have been VERY useful. That’s not the picture the poster initially painted. The initial email was 100% “the teacher was wrong” and your attack above about finding flaws in teaching is a good illustration of the ultimate problem. Were these actually flaws in the initial post? They didn’t sound that way to me. Teachers are also experts. We take feedback daily. We have also learned to critically evaluate it.[/quote]

It’s like you don’t know that IDEA exists.

Truly amazing.

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