tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post6466204557337196090..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: Among Schoolchildren - December 2011irasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-4524961019512897532011-12-21T17:02:32.238-05:002011-12-21T17:02:32.238-05:00I also love the idea of archiving long form though...I also love the idea of archiving long form thoughtful pieces here.westchester blindshttp://stampers.hdwfg.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-3406494261324163272011-12-17T08:02:01.863-05:002011-12-17T08:02:01.863-05:00The challenge is in asking the "right" q...The challenge is in asking the "right" questions. Do scripted curriculums offer that option? As we remove innovation and creativity from the classroom (for both teachers and students) and embrace uniformity and consistency (every fifth grade class doing the same things on the same day) we lose the learning opportunities you describe here.<br /><br />Keep modeling for us. You challenge conventional thinking.Karen Janowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09735088828586482051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-23076427751348605942011-12-10T16:17:27.562-05:002011-12-10T16:17:27.562-05:00Depressing to think about how much ground the US h...Depressing to think about how much ground the US has lost in the last forty years, advances in technology aside.Miss Shuganahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13200157646397610173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-86185031565332814492011-12-10T16:00:36.610-05:002011-12-10T16:00:36.610-05:00Often when someone complains about their kids I co...Often when someone complains about their kids I come back with "What were you doing in X grade?" Only once did a teacher come back with an answer that shut me down...and she was schooled in Communist Russia.Paul Bogushhttp://blogush.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-89921217510879319272011-12-10T02:27:39.072-05:002011-12-10T02:27:39.072-05:00love this Ira...
the kids are all right...let'...love this Ira... <br />the kids are all right...let's trust them. <br /><br />let's facilitate that all rightness..monika hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903730727359304285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-34947488903614905392011-12-09T22:52:54.088-05:002011-12-09T22:52:54.088-05:00I've had a whiplash couple of weeks. Last week...I've had a whiplash couple of weeks. Last week I was at TASH where I felt a kind of homecoming and yet a sense of separate yet equal. Drinking at the coloreds only drinking fountain. Acutely aware that Special Ed kids will never have equity you speak of, but at least at this conference they have a place.<br /><br />I returned to the unprofessionals at Kid O's school. I returned to an IEP meeting for our younger daughter, Kid Q, who I rarely talk about. She is very smart, inquisitive and creative. She has some vague LD label. She is being slowly eased into GenEd. Her Reading teacher came to the meeting and didn't even look at me or really acknowledge me. She left the room after she spoke. Her mind is made up. As far as she is concerned, Kid Q is not capable of reading at a 4th Grade level. <br /><br />This morning Kid Q showed me unfinished reading logs. She actually does have good reading comprehension. She also is a shiny object person. Does that translate directly to attention deficit? I am not so sure, and, once, when I brought it up, I was told that a diagnosis would invariably mean medication. I find the idea of it abhorrent. I wonder, instead, if perhaps these teachers are simply not keeping her engaged. There has to be a better way than scolding a child for not doing the work she has no interest in doing and, in fact, distresses her. The Special Ed teacher has done some good things with her, but there seems to be some kind of absence of thought... Kid Q asks us all kinds of questions. I help her look up things all the time, which lights her up. Why, then, are they not doing something similar? I get the impression that the GenEd teacher wants everything to be orderly, and Kid Q ruins that orderliness. Essentially this teacher is having a fit because she does not have a perfect universe and Kid Q is to blame. I suspect that she does not try to engage her. When we impose rigid rules on children, we do not get good outcomes. <br /><br />I want schools where both my daughters can feel at home, and, more importantly, where they can feel joy in learning.Miss Shuganahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13200157646397610173noreply@blogger.com