tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746275271956999377.post957390248012551536..comments2021-07-16T10:04:11.480-04:00Comments on and gladly teach: Let "Down Time" Work for YouRoy Starlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08998376320870001861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746275271956999377.post-31409991357067102652013-11-21T22:04:30.259-05:002013-11-21T22:04:30.259-05:00Doc Star,
This question is perhaps unrelated to y...Doc Star, <br />This question is perhaps unrelated to your current post, but nonetheless here it is: As a new teacher people are always speaking to me about disillusionment. I'm generally not the type to think I have nothing to learn but in this regard I was fairly confident that I had a pretty realistic view of education as a profession. But, halfway into my first year, it happened. As I was planning for my third quarter in a PLC group I asked the other teachers on my team how they were planning to pace students' outside reading of To Kill a Mockingbird. The response was wholly depressing: we read the novel entirely in class with our standard students. <br />As it turned out, I did have something to learn. I was absolutely shocked that we were not asking students to read a book outside of class! What happened to the days of reading at home and discussing in class? When I posed this question to my peers I was told: "they just won't read it outside of class," along with much encouragement to "go ahead and try it" accompanied by several "good luck"s. So what it is the truth? Am I truly in need of disillusionment? Is it truly impossible to get low level kids to read a complex text outside of class? if not, how do we achieve it?<br />Your coworker,<br />Amanda DicksonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01995668154654557666noreply@blogger.com