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I Marie Kondo d my teaching during the pandemic Now I m sticking with it

10/22/2022 11:19:00 PM

COMMENTARY: I Marie Kondo d my teaching during the pandemic Now I m sticking with it.

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COMMENTARY: I Marie Kondo d my teaching during the pandemic Now I m sticking with it. We aren’t going to fix education by adding more things for students and teachers to do, writes Abbi Holt. We are going to fix it by evaluating and removing things that don’t work. Grumio est dea).Around winter break I finally took out one of my old tests, made it just 10 points like every other assignment, and gave it in a Zoom session. I was nervous. Would this year’s students, learning in an entirely different way and with the changes I’d made so far, do nearly as well? They did. Even the kids who hadn’t done any of the homework demonstrated understanding of a large part of the story. Every chapter after that I gave a similar reading check. Every kid showed acceptable, at least C-level progress; a handful without turning in most of the homework. Something was working. Read more:
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On Saturday's 'America Right Now,' Tom Basile explains why American parents need to demand better phonics for their kids in schools in the upcoming November ... Read more >> Montgomery neighborhood concerned over proposed gas stationMapco is proposing to add a location on North Holt Street near the Cottage Hill neighborhood. College enrollment falls for third straight yearThe drop may be cooling after reaching historic levels during the pandemic. If we want to reverse this trend, then please ensure that schools have great teachers and not terrible teachers. Many of us don’t like how teachers care more about getting paychecks than helping us learn. Once we got high school diploma, we never want to go back to school. When college prices you out… It’s the economy stupid. Let’s go Brandon ‘No quick fixes’: Walensky’s push for change at CDC meets realityIn an interview with POLITICO, Walensky said it is critical for the CDC to communicate with Americans more quickly — even when it doesn’t know everything. CDCDirector your communications with the American people in the pandemic isn't working so far in this crisis cause you've made CDCgov a laughing stock for not following the mandates in the pandemic as cases have been rising for many months. You've not reported death rates anywh Seems like the CDC did too much communication not too little. No, that's not it. It is important for CDC to get it right. All About Taylor Swift's “Anti-Hero” Music VideoAll About Taylor Swift's ‘Anti-Hero’ Music Video All right Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Lyrics Are a ‘Tour’ of Everything She ‘Hates’ About Herself—Decoding the Secret Meaning'It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.' Midnights ) version and the enslaved male cook from our textbook became a goddess ( Grumio est dea ).Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn MONTGOMERY, Ala.out Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse.By Krista Mahr At the same time, Walensky is confronting internal pushback. Around winter break I finally took out one of my old tests, made it just 10 points like every other assignment, and gave it in a Zoom session. I was nervous. Jake Johnson, a five-year homeowner in the district, said the gas station could hurt the area’s historic value. Would this year’s students, learning in an entirely different way and with the changes I’d made so far, do nearly as well? They did. Driving the news: Total undergraduate and graduate enrollment combined declined 1. Even the kids who hadn’t done any of the homework demonstrated understanding of a large part of the story. Johnson started a petition in protest of the gas station with more than 200 signatures. Every chapter after that I gave a similar reading check.” Walensky needs help to realize her vision. Every kid showed acceptable, at least C-level progress; a handful without turning in most of the homework. The resident said his neighbors are not against redeveloping the area, but the city should consider what goes into historic areas. Freshmen enrollment declined by 1. Something was working. Everything that does not directly lead to student learning of the subject matter is a barrier to someone. “We have to think about some of the growing pains that we are willing to have in order to get some of the results that we want to see for downtown and off of the I-65 corridor,” said Reed. Then — gloriously, terrifyingly — we were back in person.6% decline compared to a 10. I braced myself for grades to fall in reading assessments now that students didn’t have access to Google translate and couldn’t text each other off screen for answers. 25 for the first step of the approval process.” Given lawmakers’ appetite for putting more money into public health, help isn’t likely to be on the way anytime soon. Instead, they went up! And it was official, some students seemed to be learning just as well without homework. I remembered my student lovingly doing her sister's hair as we’d worked. Sign up for the and get the latest local news and breaking alerts in your email! Copyright 2022 WSFA. HBCU's enrollment grew 2. I had already killed off grammar, vocabulary, big tests and now the last sacred cow; I took a deep breath and cut out the homework. I watched those daily checks like a hawk and was floored when, even without homework, students’ reading comprehension kept improving at the expected pace. Most Read. As I prepared for the second pandemic school year, this time fully in-person, a tiny thought snuck in. Community colleges saw the smallest declines in enrollment, posting a 0. ‘Some people may still resist’ This spring, Walensky ordered a review of the CDC’s Covid-19 response and its operations . The end of the that last year had gone so well. Students were suddenly able to collaborate more easily and remote work was replaced with skits, conversations and the chaos of making armor for our gladiator games. Everyone was suddenly engaged and doing well on their reading assessments. Community college enrollment dropped by 9. So I began to wonder if I could teach in such a way that none of my students felt lost? In which no one gives up? Could this most inaccessible of languages — Latin — be accessible to everyone, this subject that has so often been a gatekeeper for elite white academic spaces? A timer in the author’s classroom used for tracking the number of minutes spent in Latin, with classes competing for the highest score. Oct. It often took days — sometimes weeks — for the CDC to publish infection rates and deaths. 2022. (Courtesy Abbi Holt) As I taught that first month, I intently followed my daily checks. For the first time, if I saw grades dip for more than a day, I either retaught material or emailed parents to simply ask if they could quiz their student in vocabulary or read one of our stories together. Emailing parents takes time, but I no longer had to grade homework, vocabulary quizzes or tests, so all that time and energy went into direct student support. Then I gave a longer reading passage. “And these are essential data. Not only were there no D’s or F’s — the vast majority were A's. With every larger reading assessment I gave, I held my breath. Surely, cutting such long and lovingly followed methods of instruction would hurt learning, but the success continued. I did cover a little less material, but students were actually willing to do a little extra work to catch up, because I never let them fall so behind that they felt hopeless. Amazingly, I also found that I wasn’t growing increasingly exhausted like I had in previous years. A CDC study that looked at how well the was working was an early test of the new workplace philosophy. Now, I know Latin is different. There are no standardized tests to teach to, and I am usually left to my own devices since I am the only Latin teacher in my school. I am also lucky to have innovative colleagues and administrators who provide excellent examples, offer feedback and allow me to explore new ways to get better results. I’m here to tell you, however, we aren’t going to fix education by adding more things for students and teachers to do; we are going to fix it by evaluating and removing things that don’t work. Everything that does not directly lead to student learning of the subject matter is a barrier to someone.” The approach has made some longtime staffers uncomfortable. And as for my students and me? We’re not going back. Follow Cognoscenti on .