Anonymous wrote:So people here think it is okay to print a word that is spelled incorrectly on homework for a 6yr old trying to learn how to spell?

Nobody has said this.

However, the word is not spelled incorrectly on the homework being discussed on this thread. The correct spelling on the homework is "cloze". The homework is a cloze activity.

Anonymous wrote:So people here think it is okay to print a word that is spelled incorrectly on homework for a 6yr old trying to learn how to spell?

Actually, I think it's one person agreeing with their own posts.

So people here think it is okay to print a word that is spelled incorrectly on homework for a 6yr old trying to learn how to spell?

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

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My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.

That is by far the dumbest attempt of an analogy I have ever seen.

Not as dumb as assuming a teacher mispelled a word because you yourself don't know it.

But as dumb as still not catching the point after eight pages.

8 pages on this??

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

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My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.

That is by far the dumbest attempt of an analogy I have ever seen.

Not as dumb as assuming a teacher mispelled a word because you yourself don't know it.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

+1

My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.

That is by far the dumbest attempt of an analogy I have ever seen.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

+1

My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.

I take my child to a doctor instead of googling for expertise, they don't just know definitions but how to apply them. If they are professional they can also explain without the jargon and teach the necessary latin terms to me and my child. If not they just throw around terms without regard for technical training or age of the patient.

Make the appropriate analogy to teaching. First graders can benefit from a cloze activity without knowing that is what they are doing or learning the educational theory first. A professional teacher has a deeper understanding of what is going on, recognizes a close activity in context and can explain the technique with or without jargon to students or parents as needed.

The issue with the worksheet seems settled--a cute pun that made sense when it was a page in a workbook, but jargon-y out of context. No big deal, OP is satisfied, the title isn't wrong. But you insist on saying the professionalism of teachers has been attacked. Yet, as you belabor the point, I wonder if you understand professionalism.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

+1

My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.

z is the new s, didn't you know?

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Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

There are a ton of adults in this country who have abysmal math skills. They did fine memorizing basic addition/multiplication, but as things build conceptually they begin to have difficulty. Making a child perform the same basic addition problem different ways ensures that they understand conceptually what the problem and the answer means. Your child will be better for it come time for algebra and calculus.

-Phsycicist whose parents were making her do this long before it was required

If you were a real one you could spell it.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

But does the 1st grader understand it? NO!