When Fluency Practice Becomes So Much More
And for the remaining four minutes of the period, I was a completely ineffective educator.
We must reject the ideology of the "achievement gap" that absolves adults of their responsibility and implies student culpability in continued under-performance. The student achievement gap is merely the effect of a much larger and more debilitating chasm: The Educator Achievement Gap. We must erase the distance between the type of teachers we are, and the type of teachers they need us to be.
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This summer, as I used Great Leaps for reading fluency that contains the section with parts of words, a student read the word portion "sult" as slut. I've never seen a child turn more red in his life. I was completely unable to keep a straight face as he apologized over and over and I told him it was ok and not a big deal, but just keep reading.
Chase a bear! That kid went to Science Camp! I love it.
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