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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Gotta Have a Plan
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ve talked before about my friend who teaches middle school social studies in South Carolina. He has admirable classroom management skills - discipline isn’t a problem for him. But teaching kids what they need to know to pass the test and be educated … he struggles against the usual forces: student apathy, parent apathy, kids who lack basic reading skills.
This year, he has been directed to develop a 4-page “student success plan” for each student. He has more than 100 of them. I’ve seen this before as a way of keeping students on the very low and the very high end from getting lost. But it’s an awful lot of paperwork.
Teachers, have you worked in a school that required these types of reports? Is this necessary to make sure every child gets taught?
(FYI: I’m still at home sick, so I won’t be able to respond to e-mails until next week…)
