I can tell you why students are failing and so can every classroom teacher. The teachers are told they have to get through the curriculum. If you have ever seen the curriculum, you know it's set up for teachers to fail. What is not happening is that teachers, especially new ones, are trying to get the entire curriculum done in a year. What they need to be doing is actually teaching, the kids. Answering questions, teaching them how to ask questions which teaches thinking skills. This is not happening in most classrooms because is you teach the curriculum there is no time to answer the questions or allow the kids to think. The curriculum does not take into consideration the varying skill levels of each kid in the classroom. That's the teacher's job. New teachers don't know this. They barely have time to meet with mentors in the building. It could take them 3-5 years to figure it out. Not every kid in third grade is ready to read at a third grade level. Pick your battles. It doesn't make any difference if you teach the entire curriculum if your kids can't read or do math at the end of the year. Science and Social Studies in the elementary school are basically who is in your community. No huge life changing lessons their. Other than if we don't study history we are doomed to repeat the disasters of the past. This is true. It's more important for an elementary student to know who the local mayor is, what city they live in, what are some things to do in the area, than it is to understand national politics. All they need to know on a national level what state, and country they live in and the names of the President and Vice President and their governor. Be good to know the name of the principal of the building, their bus driver, and maybe the superintendent. Their address would be nice and the phone number of the person they need to call if they are sick or hurt. That takes care of social studies for K-3. It's not rocket science. They have to learn to read or nothing else will make sense. They need to know basic math or they will never understand advanced math. Parents used to volunteer in elementary school to sit in the hallway and go over basic math problems in addition and subtraction from first through third grade. Then in fourth grade it was the basic multiplication and division facts. This way teachers could keep teaching the more advanced math. Parents also did weekly spelling and sight words to help kids. Does that happen anymore? Teachers who have been in the trenches know to teach the kids not the curriculum. The MEAP in Michigan used to me a minimals assessment. Did kids have the basics from K-3 to pass the MEAP in 4th grade? The MEAP is a worthless test now. They change it every year, there is not baseline anymore. No one knows what it is assessing except how well a teacher teaches to the test. It is on longer a 4ht, 7th & 9th grade test. It is given yearly, with no baseline and it changes from year to year. The IDIOTS in Michigan's government look at this years 3rd graders and compare them to last years third graders and they might asl well be comparing apples to oranges. There is no logical comparison. So, who knows who is doing better? You would have to compare this years 3rd graders to how they did in 2nd grad and first grade to know if they are actually making strides. But Politicians are clueless as to how this works. With no standardized baseline that is the only way to know. Until they do this, they will blame the special needs population for bringing the scores low. Which is unfair to every single special needs child who had to take a grade level exam and not an ability level one. Then the local newspapers print the scores, telling how they did worse than last year. When last year their were fewer special needs kids taking the stupid test than this year or vice versa. Those kids are devastated by what they hear is being reported. Then Special Ed teachers have to do damage control. I did for 22 years. Because the newspaper said my students were inferior or damaged. Not something I ever taught my students.
So, someone has to point out to states and the federal governments when they are breaking the law and the only way to do that is a lawsuit. What a racket.
It's always been publish or perish in academia. If they allow professors to just publish what they want, which they have for years, no they are only going to get rubbish. There is no motivation to go do research, that's what they have Grad Assisstants for. If the Grad Ass gets it wrong, who cares? Obviously not the professor writing the paper. Meaningful research is only done by people who actually want to learn something. I have all but the thesis for my Education Specialist degree. Everyone wanted me to write it on special education. I didn't want to write about special education. I had a good thesis idea about the pros and cons of a police liaison in the middle school. We'd had two by that point and were losing the current one. I couldn't get that approved although I had three years of data for the statistical part. I wrote a book instead and never looked back.
I'm not sure how I feel about the Maryland bill. If those serving as ICE agents should quit ICE for whatever reason, I see no reason they cannot be law enforcement officers. Aren't they trained law enforcement officers to begin with? To my knowledge they are not mercenaries for hire.
Okay, as far as I know you foot the bill for your ambulance ride if you are not admitted. Which means the two times I was in ER last week I foot the $175 ambulance ride. The idiots should have admitted me on Wed. if they had, my daughter in MI would not have had to get my doctor's office to call for an ambulance on Thurs. night. Get this, Wed. night they released me to a taxi that didn't show up for 4 hrs. At 10:33pm at night they discharged me I was dumbfounded. There was no one I could or would call at that time of night. So, I go in on Thursday and ask for a patient advocate. In addition to all the other stuff I am hallucinating. This is not a good thing. My daughter only has one parent. The other one is deceased. She truly thought she was losing her mom. When I was discharged on Thurs night. (Friday morning) it was 1:30am they had already called for the taxi. I was to hurry up and get to the ER waiting room so he didn't drive away if I wasn't there. I managed to get there and promptly fell asleep. They had to wake me to get me to walk out to the taxi. It was 2am. When I walked out of ER my blood pressure was 200/107 seriouslessly? I should have been in a cardiac care unit on Wed But, my blood sugar was below 200 so they were letting me go. I have no idea what it was. Since I was not admitted, I have both ER bills about $7000+ a piece and both ambulance bills. Yes, my deductibiles and co-pays should be met, but the co-pays won't. If Minnisota is being billed for non-existent rides, they are promoting fraud in the ambulance companies. I'm sure they have more than one. Where is Gov. Waltz while this is going on under his nose????
I can tell you why students are failing and so can every classroom teacher. The teachers are told they have to get through the curriculum. If you have ever seen the curriculum, you know it's set up for teachers to fail. What is not happening is that teachers, especially new ones, are trying to get the entire curriculum done in a year. What they need to be doing is actually teaching, the kids. Answering questions, teaching them how to ask questions which teaches thinking skills. This is not happening in most classrooms because is you teach the curriculum there is no time to answer the questions or allow the kids to think. The curriculum does not take into consideration the varying skill levels of each kid in the classroom. That's the teacher's job. New teachers don't know this. They barely have time to meet with mentors in the building. It could take them 3-5 years to figure it out. Not every kid in third grade is ready to read at a third grade level. Pick your battles. It doesn't make any difference if you teach the entire curriculum if your kids can't read or do math at the end of the year. Science and Social Studies in the elementary school are basically who is in your community. No huge life changing lessons their. Other than if we don't study history we are doomed to repeat the disasters of the past. This is true. It's more important for an elementary student to know who the local mayor is, what city they live in, what are some things to do in the area, than it is to understand national politics. All they need to know on a national level what state, and country they live in and the names of the President and Vice President and their governor. Be good to know the name of the principal of the building, their bus driver, and maybe the superintendent. Their address would be nice and the phone number of the person they need to call if they are sick or hurt. That takes care of social studies for K-3. It's not rocket science. They have to learn to read or nothing else will make sense. They need to know basic math or they will never understand advanced math. Parents used to volunteer in elementary school to sit in the hallway and go over basic math problems in addition and subtraction from first through third grade. Then in fourth grade it was the basic multiplication and division facts. This way teachers could keep teaching the more advanced math. Parents also did weekly spelling and sight words to help kids. Does that happen anymore? Teachers who have been in the trenches know to teach the kids not the curriculum. The MEAP in Michigan used to me a minimals assessment. Did kids have the basics from K-3 to pass the MEAP in 4th grade? The MEAP is a worthless test now. They change it every year, there is not baseline anymore. No one knows what it is assessing except how well a teacher teaches to the test. It is on longer a 4ht, 7th & 9th grade test. It is given yearly, with no baseline and it changes from year to year. The IDIOTS in Michigan's government look at this years 3rd graders and compare them to last years third graders and they might asl well be comparing apples to oranges. There is no logical comparison. So, who knows who is doing better? You would have to compare this years 3rd graders to how they did in 2nd grad and first grade to know if they are actually making strides. But Politicians are clueless as to how this works. With no standardized baseline that is the only way to know. Until they do this, they will blame the special needs population for bringing the scores low. Which is unfair to every single special needs child who had to take a grade level exam and not an ability level one. Then the local newspapers print the scores, telling how they did worse than last year. When last year their were fewer special needs kids taking the stupid test than this year or vice versa. Those kids are devastated by what they hear is being reported. Then Special Ed teachers have to do damage control. I did for 22 years. Because the newspaper said my students were inferior or damaged. Not something I ever taught my students.
So, someone has to point out to states and the federal governments when they are breaking the law and the only way to do that is a lawsuit. What a racket.
It's always been publish or perish in academia. If they allow professors to just publish what they want, which they have for years, no they are only going to get rubbish. There is no motivation to go do research, that's what they have Grad Assisstants for. If the Grad Ass gets it wrong, who cares? Obviously not the professor writing the paper. Meaningful research is only done by people who actually want to learn something. I have all but the thesis for my Education Specialist degree. Everyone wanted me to write it on special education. I didn't want to write about special education. I had a good thesis idea about the pros and cons of a police liaison in the middle school. We'd had two by that point and were losing the current one. I couldn't get that approved although I had three years of data for the statistical part. I wrote a book instead and never looked back.
I'm not sure how I feel about the Maryland bill. If those serving as ICE agents should quit ICE for whatever reason, I see no reason they cannot be law enforcement officers. Aren't they trained law enforcement officers to begin with? To my knowledge they are not mercenaries for hire.
Okay, as far as I know you foot the bill for your ambulance ride if you are not admitted. Which means the two times I was in ER last week I foot the $175 ambulance ride. The idiots should have admitted me on Wed. if they had, my daughter in MI would not have had to get my doctor's office to call for an ambulance on Thurs. night. Get this, Wed. night they released me to a taxi that didn't show up for 4 hrs. At 10:33pm at night they discharged me I was dumbfounded. There was no one I could or would call at that time of night. So, I go in on Thursday and ask for a patient advocate. In addition to all the other stuff I am hallucinating. This is not a good thing. My daughter only has one parent. The other one is deceased. She truly thought she was losing her mom. When I was discharged on Thurs night. (Friday morning) it was 1:30am they had already called for the taxi. I was to hurry up and get to the ER waiting room so he didn't drive away if I wasn't there. I managed to get there and promptly fell asleep. They had to wake me to get me to walk out to the taxi. It was 2am. When I walked out of ER my blood pressure was 200/107 seriouslessly? I should have been in a cardiac care unit on Wed But, my blood sugar was below 200 so they were letting me go. I have no idea what it was. Since I was not admitted, I have both ER bills about $7000+ a piece and both ambulance bills. Yes, my deductibiles and co-pays should be met, but the co-pays won't. If Minnisota is being billed for non-existent rides, they are promoting fraud in the ambulance companies. I'm sure they have more than one. Where is Gov. Waltz while this is going on under his nose????