NCLB sucks
I am losing my freakin mind! Just about to start a documentation process and needed to get this out so that I do not put it on the “official” record. NCLB needs to DIE!!! The required documentation, call it CYA if you will, is unbelievable! Good job Johnny, (write that down). Get your head up Ryan. (write that down) Document everything and then graph it in comparison with other students. There is also the charting/graphing of an individual students grade compared to that of the rest of the class, as well as the charting/graphing of the class average to the average of all classes. SO much time is spent documenting, charting, plotting, graphing, and such that teaching seems to fall by the wayside! I’m all about teacher accountability, but the extent of this is SO time consuming that teachers fall short in other areas. Your high achieving students are going to do well. They are determined to do so. The low achieving students are low achieving for a reason and that reason DOES need to be identified, however NOT at the expense of those in the middle…THESE are the students who will be left behind. So much time is spent trying to get lazy Lucy to do her work, turn it in, and pay attention that the student who truly needs help is left out in the cold. Motivation is my key issue. I can not do the homework for the student. At some point students AND parents are going to have to be accountable. Teachers need to be able to teach, to educate! I did not get a degree in documentation/stats and measures. BS in Secondary education, Social Science with an emphasis in American History. MA in American History.
Rant over. Please go back to your regularly scheduled blog hopping.
February 28 2006 02:17 pm | Education and Ramblings
