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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am all for it. While there are a lot of negatives such of lack of choice and teacher autonomy there are many pluses. The main one is that it will equalize the quality of teaching across the county. Your student will get the same reading instruction if they are being taught by a 30 year veteran teacher in a rich area or are be being taught by a teacher trainee or long term sub in a title one, the book literally tells you what to say. Right now there is reading “curriculum” but it is strongly suggested and many schools don’t even use the phonics lessons and use something else and the writing plans are minimal . The new curriculum is all inclusive and had reading comprehension , writing, grammar, and small group instruction.[/quote]T

That sounds kind of awful for teachers.  But I will admit that my older DC was taught to read with "Good readers look at the pictures" three-cueing, while my younger DC has gotten a decent amount of phonics.  And neither of them have a strong grasp of grammar and sentence structure, or have any grasp at all of formal writing.  Lucy Calkins has a lot to answer for.  [/quote]

Unless there is an older teacher sneaking those methods in three cueing is unheard of now. Most new teachers wouldn’t even be able to tell you what that is because colleges don’t teach it anymore.[/quote]

It was only 3 years ago.  I know that FCPS has really changed their reading curriculum, for the better.  If they change their writing curriculum, I'll be happy. I 'm not sure an entirely scripted all-inclusive reading and writing program is needed - I guess we'll see how it is.  [b]What our teachers need more of is autonomy, not more scripts.[/b]  [/quote]

Not anymore. The current crop of inexperienced or burned out teachers don’t make good use of autonomy. Those days are over.[/quote]

Most teachers at my school are happy about it because it cuts way down on planning. The workload has to come down to keep teachers. I would argue that work load is the bigger problem than the pay. If this basal goes successfully, I think a Math curriculum won’t be far behind.[/quote]

They've had several math curriculums. What was wrong with the previous ones?[/quote]

There has been no math curriculum for at least the last 8 years. We teachers at each school create EVERYTHING. The county puts together some slides that have ONE MATH PROBLEM for the entire instruction.

We have Origo to supplement. It’s all online for teachers, doesn’t align with what we teach in Virginia, uses terminology unheard of in the US and was complete and utter crap. No one uses it.[/quote]

We are supposed to get new math slides for the new math standards. The current ones are terrible, nobody uses them, at least not without significant modification.[/quote]

Oh, I’m sure we’ll get new slide decks. With fancy graphics and pages of POG skills. And one stinking math problem. And a slide with centers names. The kids need to do math, math, and more math. But apparently one problem and talking about it is sufficient for Gatehouse.[/quote]

Thank God this bothers someone else besides for me. I’m so tired of these 20 page slide decks with only one problem in them. I CANNOT with these math slides anymore!!! [/quote]Do the teachers have to use the slide decks? They are not effective learning in elementary school especially for some neurodiverse students?[/quote]

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