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Michelle Arce

Making Schools Work with Hedrick Smith . School-By-School Reform . Scripted Lessons | PBS - 4 views

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  • proven methods
    • Ashley Muniz
      Ashley Muniz on 26 Oct 10
       
      I wish the article was more specific about what the "proven methods" are
  • As an experienced teacher she found the process of adopting her district’s program “humiliating and demeaning.”
    • Michelle Arce
      Michelle Arce on 16 Nov 10
       
      I totally understand why experienced teachers may feel this way. HOWEVER, this is a way for our school system to make sure that teachers are at least addressing the correct material in class.
  • Ashley Muniz on 26 Oct 10
     
    This article is about scripted lessons and teachers reactions to them
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  • ameia sarkisian on 29 Oct 10
     
    I can see how failing inner city schools, with students in the absolute worst conditions, might benefit from a scripted program. I don't agree that it's right, but I can see how one might justify the implementation of such a method when all else seems to have failed. I cringed at the end of the article when the teacher said that the scripted program "allowed for alittle bit of personality" on the teacher's part to show through... A LITTLE BIT?! Isn't the personality of the teacher that acts as an example for the students? isn't it the personality of the teacher that students "judge" right off the bat, sometimes effecting how much they choose to learn and participate in that particular class? I can't believe people actually believe our whole nation, which is SUPPOSED to be a diverse melting pot of people and experience, should adopt this rigid and inflexible curriculum method.
  • Ashley Muniz on 05 Nov 10
     
    I agree that direct instruction may help some students but I feel like a scripted lesson denies the individuality of the students and the teacher. These types of lessons tell you how to conduct the lesson word for word as well as how to answer students' questions. I feel like this takes all creativity out of teaching and turns the teacher into a robot. These systems are also meant to "teacher-proof" the classroom so that even bad teacher can "teach" as long as they know how to read.
  • ameia sarkisian on 05 Nov 10
     
    Wow and the scripted curriculum even tells the teacher how to answer questions?! If school, especially high school, is supposed to reflect a small scale-real world for students then what kind of message are we sending when we ("we" being teachers) are told how to do everything by a higher power; that we're all more successful if we do everything exactly the same all the time? So much for the development of critical literacy.
Ashley Muniz

Is Your Child Being Taught From a Script? | Education.com - 2 views

www.education.com/...Scripted_Teaching

scripted lessons

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  • Ashley Muniz on 04 Nov 10
     
    This article looks at why scripted lessons are used, if they are actually effective, and whether teachers are employing scripted lessons in the classroom
Ashley Muniz

Teaching by the Book, No Asides Allowed - New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...he-book-no-asides-allowed.html

scripted lessons

shared by Ashley Muniz on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Asked for examples, she said that Ms. Moffett had improved her classroom bulletin boards by putting up only the best work instead of work by every student; learned to sprinkle phrases from Success for All into lessons throughout the school day; and become a better disciplinarian by not frolicking with the students as much as in the fall.
  • Ashley Muniz on 10 Nov 10
     
    This article follows the experiences of a first year teacher in a school that utilizes scripted curriculum
Ashley Muniz

Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation - 1 views

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Scripted Teaching

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  • Ashley Muniz on 05 Nov 10
     
    This articles examines the need for Creative teaching as opposed to Scripted teaching. The article argues that the learning generated from creative teaching is harder to quantify on standardized testing where as the lower order skills taught through scripted lessons are easier to measure.
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