CCBC-Net Archives
[CCBC-Net] A personal take on awards and popularity
- Contemporary messages sorted: [ by date ] [ by subject ] [ by author ]
From: LAURIE DRAUS <DRAUS>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:36:53 -0600
>>> <LMCOCCA at aol.com> 01/27/06 11:29 AM
>>>...Truthfully, though many, many teachers still find ways to
integrate literature into their everyday classroom experience...There is still a lot of reading going on in classrooms across the country. Lisa
*------ I agree with Lisa.
I think it varies quite a bit, depending on how curriculum is defined by a certain school's, district's or state's administrative powers.
I know that there are some schools, especially larger ones, if my anecdotal evidence holds true, where everyone is supposed to be on page 37 of the reading textbook and page 42 of the workbook on Wednesday so that we know everyone covered a certain curriculum item and exactly when they did it, with little "wiggle room" left for variation.
For others there is much more latitude, and as long as the curriculum items are covered in the proper time frame, then it isn't a major issue which day they are done, or which are given a little extra enrichment, such as might be done by bringing in a trade book on the topic for a unit, or even as a worthy substitute for that chapter in the textbook, if the teacher might feel it is more significant and verifies that it includes what is necessary to cover that standard.
Knowing teachers, I imagine that even in the more structured ones(though I don't know of any particular cases), there are some teachers out there who are doing their darndest to get some real literature in its natural form into their classroom teaching by any means necessary.
Speaking for myself, some of my most mentally stimulating elementary and middle school classes as a child were some of the least structured ones.
Lauri Cahoon-Draus K-12 Library Media Specialist Suring School Libraries draus at suring.k12.wi.us
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.
Received on Fri 27 Jan 2006 12:36:53 PM CST
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:36:53 -0600
>>> <LMCOCCA at aol.com> 01/27/06 11:29 AM
>>>...Truthfully, though many, many teachers still find ways to
integrate literature into their everyday classroom experience...There is still a lot of reading going on in classrooms across the country. Lisa
*------ I agree with Lisa.
I think it varies quite a bit, depending on how curriculum is defined by a certain school's, district's or state's administrative powers.
I know that there are some schools, especially larger ones, if my anecdotal evidence holds true, where everyone is supposed to be on page 37 of the reading textbook and page 42 of the workbook on Wednesday so that we know everyone covered a certain curriculum item and exactly when they did it, with little "wiggle room" left for variation.
For others there is much more latitude, and as long as the curriculum items are covered in the proper time frame, then it isn't a major issue which day they are done, or which are given a little extra enrichment, such as might be done by bringing in a trade book on the topic for a unit, or even as a worthy substitute for that chapter in the textbook, if the teacher might feel it is more significant and verifies that it includes what is necessary to cover that standard.
Knowing teachers, I imagine that even in the more structured ones(though I don't know of any particular cases), there are some teachers out there who are doing their darndest to get some real literature in its natural form into their classroom teaching by any means necessary.
Speaking for myself, some of my most mentally stimulating elementary and middle school classes as a child were some of the least structured ones.
Lauri Cahoon-Draus K-12 Library Media Specialist Suring School Libraries draus at suring.k12.wi.us
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.
Received on Fri 27 Jan 2006 12:36:53 PM CST
