Anonymous
02/01/2023 19:49
Subject: Re:Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Anonymous wrote:Oh for chr!ssake, don't you have anything better to do with your time than create trolly threads about topics you clearly know nothing about?
Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) - stop digesting content for students and go back to having them actively read different types of texts to acquire content knowledge. Essentially, in the age of King Google, if you try to get kids to read an article and then ask comprehension questions, they skip the article and just google answers. Just because someone made a fancy acronym for their study doesn't mean it's anything particularly new. It's just a repackaging of good teaching strategies with data to back up that they are more necessary at this point in time than they have been in the past.
I just had a class of 11th grade students struggle with finding recent news articles on a topic, summarizing the information, and then presenting to the class. They couldn't distinguish a news article from a random webpage, they couldn't summarize information, and they couldn't present out to the class without reading the random lines they grabbed from the article. No synthesis, no evidence they actually read and comprehended the whole thing. Clearly something I need to actively teach how to do this quarter.
The sky isn't falling, chicken little.
Are you using the PACT strategies in your teaching?
Anonymous
02/01/2023 10:30
Subject: Re:Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Anonymous wrote:Oh for chr!ssake, don't you have anything better to do with your time than create trolly threads about topics you clearly know nothing about?
Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) - stop digesting content for students and go back to having them actively read different types of texts to acquire content knowledge. Essentially, in the age of King Google, if you try to get kids to read an article and then ask comprehension questions, they skip the article and just google answers. Just because someone made a fancy acronym for their study doesn't mean it's anything particularly new. It's just a repackaging of good teaching strategies with data to back up that they are more necessary at this point in time than they have been in the past.
I just had a class of 11th grade students struggle with finding recent news articles on a topic, summarizing the information, and then presenting to the class. They couldn't distinguish a news article from a random webpage, they couldn't summarize information, and they couldn't present out to the class without reading the random lines they grabbed from the article. No synthesis, no evidence they actually read and comprehended the whole thing. Clearly something I need to actively teach how to do this quarter.
The sky isn't falling, chicken little.
Thanks for clearing this up!
Anonymous
02/01/2023 09:37
Subject: Re:Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Oh for chr!ssake, don't you have anything better to do with your time than create trolly threads about topics you clearly know nothing about?
Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) - stop digesting content for students and go back to having them actively read different types of texts to acquire content knowledge. Essentially, in the age of King Google, if you try to get kids to read an article and then ask comprehension questions, they skip the article and just google answers. Just because someone made a fancy acronym for their study doesn't mean it's anything particularly new. It's just a repackaging of good teaching strategies with data to back up that they are more necessary at this point in time than they have been in the past.
I just had a class of 11th grade students struggle with finding recent news articles on a topic, summarizing the information, and then presenting to the class. They couldn't distinguish a news article from a random webpage, they couldn't summarize information, and they couldn't present out to the class without reading the random lines they grabbed from the article. No synthesis, no evidence they actually read and comprehended the whole thing. Clearly something I need to actively teach how to do this quarter.
The sky isn't falling, chicken little.
Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) - stop digesting content for students and go back to having them actively read different types of texts to acquire content knowledge. Essentially, in the age of King Google, if you try to get kids to read an article and then ask comprehension questions, they skip the article and just google answers. Just because someone made a fancy acronym for their study doesn't mean it's anything particularly new. It's just a repackaging of good teaching strategies with data to back up that they are more necessary at this point in time than they have been in the past.
I just had a class of 11th grade students struggle with finding recent news articles on a topic, summarizing the information, and then presenting to the class. They couldn't distinguish a news article from a random webpage, they couldn't summarize information, and they couldn't present out to the class without reading the random lines they grabbed from the article. No synthesis, no evidence they actually read and comprehended the whole thing. Clearly something I need to actively teach how to do this quarter.
The sky isn't falling, chicken little.
Anonymous
02/01/2023 08:45
Subject: Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Anonymous wrote:This strategy is still being studied by the creators and is only piloted in two MCPS schools this year, but MCPS already adopted it for system-wide implementation next year in all core subject areas except math. Aren’t you curious if it is working?
Which two MCPS schools are piloting it? The project website only mentions DCPS schools.
Anonymous
02/01/2023 08:41
Subject: Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Anonymous wrote:This strategy is still being studied by the creators and is only piloted in two MCPS schools this year, but MCPS already adopted it for system-wide implementation next year in all core subject areas except math. Aren’t you curious if it is working?
Is this what everyone is raving about? I heard it was even better than Benchmark!
Anonymous
02/01/2023 08:10
Subject: Re:Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
Anonymous wrote:What is this? Can you link?
https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/llrc/projects/affiliated-projects-0/project-pact-plus
Anonymous
02/01/2023 07:06
Subject: Re:Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
What is this? Can you link?
Anonymous
02/01/2023 07:03
Subject: Time for parents to start asking hard questions about the system’s adoption of PACT reading strategy
This strategy is still being studied by the creators and is only piloted in two MCPS schools this year, but MCPS already adopted it for system-wide implementation next year in all core subject areas except math. Aren’t you curious if it is working?