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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD
My mother is the opposite. She teaches inclusion on a general level. She has the students who don't care, are behavior problems, and generally don't want to be there.
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Story of my life. What's really bad is they're disrupting the few students who would like to learn, and it's next to impossible to get them out of the class.
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I agree with some parts of the law. I believe that reform in education does need to occur. I'm not entirely sure how it going to occur, but I don't believe that NCLB is the answer. There needs to be some changes in the law.
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Ditto that. I really don't think it's going to work until the law also includes some measure of student and parent accountability. Student accountability should especially be in play at the high school level.
I was actually wishing the people supporting NCLB were sitting in my class the day I handed out progress reports. Several students were delighted with their scores- "Yes! Only one F!" That's just the climate with the students I have. It's a problem much deeper than one English teacher. It's certainly a problem that this poor little first year teacher has no idea how to fix.
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My main disagreement with the law is how the students are being tested, particularly with the middle/high school cohort. I teach Biology. The students are tested on Chemistry, Biology, Physical Science, and Envrionmental Science, for the most part. I am held responsbile for the student failing the entire test. He may have gotten all the questions correct in Biology, but because he didn't learn anything in Chemistry the year before, he failed that part, he didn't do so hot on the environmental science because its not a required class-not to mention the last time he had any teaching on envrionmental science was in 6th grade and hes now a junior in high school, and Physical Science he is supposed to remember from freshman year.
On a state level, for science, NJ is petetioning to allow the testing after the year of the test. I support this fully. So now, after taking Biology, the student will be tested on only Biology. This grade comes back to the teacher teaching the subject, not the unfortunate person who is held accountable for the previous 10 years of teaching.
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The previous teacher problem is especially exasperating with high school reading scores as well. When you've got a kid that comes to you at below a sixth grade reading level in ninth grade, there is pretty much no miracle that's going to have them passing the FCAT reading by February of tenth grade. They're just too far behind. It's especially aggravating when they flat out refuse to work!
Unfortunately, I cannot teach by osmosis, however much I wish I could.