NCLB set forth a certain criteria to be met, but allowed the states to determine how they would accomplish it. Therefore, each state handles assessment and accountability differently. This makes it hard to show success or failure of the programs. Supporters and critics alike can cite research that supports their opinion. My opinion of NCLB is it is flawed, developmentally inappropriate, ill funded, ←and→ leaving more students, teachers, ←and→ schools behind than ever before because The tests have turned into the objective of classroom instruction rather than the measure of teaching ←and→ learning.
In the book What Great Teachers Do Differently, Todd Whitaker chronicles things that great teachers do. By adopting many of the practices in the book, a new teacher can be well on their way to becoming a great teacher. High expectations, creating a climate of caring, decision making, and learning to ignore things are just a few of the things that great teachers do. Great teachers have high expectations not just for their students, but also for themselves. The expectations a teacher places on his or herself are directly related to those placed on their students.
Is it comprehensive? The United States has invested time and money to provide teachers with effective methods and strategies for teaching ELLs (Echevarria, Short, and Powers 2006; Lee and Luykx. There are many factors to consider of educating ELLs either by the teachers, or ESL specialists. Discuss the methods section. What design was
This is why there have been some efforts to develop English Language Development (ELD) standards. Resources Common Core State Standards 2010 http://www.azed.gov/standards-practices/common-core-state-standards/ NCLR Educating English Language Learners Annie E. Caasey Foundation http://www.lab.brown.edu/pubs/nclr/edells_impinstprct.pdf Path to Progress Data: Not Just a Four Letter Word Feb. 03, 2011 by Rebecca J.Blink,
5.06 * Nile Verleur 4/11/15 Article 1 Report: Our High Schools May Not Adequately Prepare Dropouts For Unemployment 1. What is the essential cultural observation or situation being satirized? What clues lead you to this conclusion? * This article satirizes the lack of support geared towards creating successful students and the misuse of support programs and resources applied towards the failing and less successful students. For example, the author uses sarcasm to point out the lack of support for students when he quotes, “Our public high schools place too much focus on preparing kids for professional careers.” The author later criticizes the unorganized approach teachers take towards the discipline and teaching of students when he quotes, ‘"Educators do a lot to ensure that the most hopeless students slip through the cracks...
Laura Lefkowits, in her article From Equity to Adequacy adds... “An important first step for education leaders and policymakers is to help their communities define not only what they want students to know and be able to do, but also how much they are willing to pay to achieve these goals.” How much are we willing to pay? The bottom line is really the front line. When schools struggle to keep books on shelves, struggle to attract and maintain quality staff, while simultaneously fighting off censure and upheaval due to poor historical performance, all in a dilapidated building with overcrowding issues, it is impossible to consistently have adequate outcomes much less high ones. These factors, when interpreted by an ever wisening populous, become a catalyst for the neighborhood’s ambivalence toward the school’s stated mission. So pervasive does this ambivalence become that citizens turn away from the idea of classical education as a real means of upward mobility.
Yeshas V. Sagar Dr. E. Rhee English 711 April 23, 2013 Essay 3 (Final) The Bilingual education controversy in America Bilingual education is a form of education in which students are educated in two (or more) languages. Any educational system that utilizes more than one language is bilingual. People that would support bilingual education may believe that schools in America should encourage and work with the student’s language and culture. People that are not in favor of bilingual education, however, argue that a child’s ability to acquire English quickly is due to his inhibitions. In the essay “A Nation Divided by One Language” by James Crawford and “Viva Bilingualism” by James Fallows, they both claim that it is not necessary to declare English the official language of America.
It was just a multiple choice question. The author also argues that children’s moods, their skills and disabilities, and drive to achieve affect the way they take these tests. Why make homeschooled students take the same tests as public schools, when public schools are obviously not succeeding at education? Bittner goes on to argue that testing cannot sufficiently measure homeschoolers’ learning. Homeschoolers are not taught out of a textbook; they learn more by reading and picking up
According to Astuto, Clark, McGree, Pelton Fernandez, and Read (1994), effective educators demonstrate a level of expertise that surpasses that of a teacher that has just basic skills. This assumption falls under the reform view. These superior educators understand the whole child and reveal a level of professional expertise that sets them apart from others and improves student learning. The new teacher and principal evaluations promote the success of students. Through the evaluation process teachers are encouraged to growth professionally.
Bilingual Education Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model. (Thomas & Collier, 1997) and (Lindholm-Leary, 2000) The following are several different types of bilingual education program models: • Transitional Bilingual Education. This involves education in a child's native language, typically for no more than three years, to ensure that students do not fall behind in content areas like math, science, and social studies while they are learning English. The goal is to help students transition to mainstream, English-only classrooms as quickly as possible, and the linguistic goal of such programs is English acquisition only. (Thomas & Collier, 1997) and ( Lindholm-Leary, 2000) • Two-Way or Dual Language Immersion Bilingual Education.