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DEL.ICIO.USAnd the Winner Is…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Do you enjoy SSR? Do your kids? Do you know what SSR is? It has been around for eons, but it wins our Get Schooled contest for best edujargon, because it is just so unnecessary. The acronym stands for Sustained Silent Reading. How about we just call it reading?
Dunwoody dad Steve Barton hears his daughter and her friends “chirp about how much SSR they had or what happened during or around SSR… aarrgghh! It is reading, a reading period, reading time.”
The grand prize is headed Mr. Barton’s way. Thanks to all who entered. I’m glad I’m not alone in my frustration with vague, confounding and pretentious language swirling around in education. We encourage students to write and speak with clarity. Education leaders should do the same.
As a runner up we have this jewel: Data must be disaggregated to assure brain-compatible, assessment driven, child-centered, classroom based instruction. Cross-curricular planning of developmentally appropriate, differentiated lessons will address required competencies using a variety of methodologies in a collaborative setting.
Definition: Use the results of testing to plan lessons that meet the individual educational needs of each student. This works best when teachers from different subjects plan together and share ideas.
One reader suggested a new acronym as a companion to the annoying AYP or Adequate Yearly Progress: AYPP, Adequate Yearly Progress for Parents. She wrote: “Who controls the home environment? Who controls, to some extent, students’ attitudes toward learning? The parents.”
Should parents be part of No Child Left Behind’s complex system of punishments for those who fail to educate every child?
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