I was trying to read an article about innovative teaching in elementary schools. But the article was written so poorly that I started to doubt if its author ever completed third grade. For reasons I fail to grasp, people who teach kids to read tend to hate the English language. The article used the following expressions:
- We delivered reading instruction
- Coming out of COVID, our students’ learning gaps were wide
- Our diverse learners needed diverse instruction
- That shift in mindset was the beginning of everything
- Nobody learns at exactly the same pace. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s powerful
- It’s focused, intentional, and impactful
- Our most vulnerable learners
- The number of students identified as at-risk has dropped by 25 points, with 19 of those points occurring this year
- We saw the potential to align our practices with how children actually learn to read
People who align practices are almost as obnoxious as the ones who amplify voices. And all these insufferable individuals flock to teaching.
Here’s the article, and believe me, I only took a minute sample of its extraordinary writing style.
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Teacher colleges self-select for bad writers.
People who love language go into linguistics, literature… not pedagogical theory. That’s a special hell for people who hate children.
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“pedagogical theory”
A good friend did a master’s degree in Education (I want to say Early Education) for very practical purposes. She didn’t think much of a lot of the classes (busy work more than anything this was before the super woke stuff came along) but it came in handy when she was a TA for a class in a very different field in a class most students (mostly grad students with a few undergrads) found really difficult. She said she just applied what she’d learned about teaching first or second graders and she got tremendous evaluations, far better than the professor teaching the course, which caused some problems….
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everything old is new again. In the 1970s kids were grouped by ability for reading instruction. It made sense. It didn’t leave kids bored while they waited for poorer readers to learn what they already knew.
that fell out of favor for ideological reasons. The result was failure.
Amanda
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All of these fads in education end up having poor results and the have to be reversed.
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“fads in education end up having poor results”
IIRC it was put best (I forget by who)… “all educational reform works in the short run and no educational reform works in the long run”
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What is an instructional coach? Someone who teaches teachers how to teach?
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