tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post4726219005664402363..comments2024-03-27T07:16:25.551-05:00Comments on Dewey's Treehouse: Learning outside the boxMama Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-91798043319265499962016-09-05T14:38:48.770-05:002016-09-05T14:38:48.770-05:00"Don't buy or do the things that make you..."Don't buy or do the things that make you feel more like a teacher..." That's a sobering reminder.<br /><br />Lynn, you WERE lucky to read. I had to sit, still and quiet. I was told that if I brought out my own book to read, it would cause problems among the other students, who would all, apparently, expect class reading time to become free reading time. *sigh* I spent so much time in elementary school bored—quite literally—to tears. Now that I have kids on both ends of the spectrum, I'm so glad that I can offer them better.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Sarah LCrunchy_Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13664462256982746031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-58143746767135982562016-09-04T17:28:44.706-05:002016-09-04T17:28:44.706-05:00So those at both ends of the spectrum missed out: ...So those at both ends of the spectrum missed out: the quick ones who didn't need the lessons and just tried to score high enough to jump to the next level, and the slow ones who maybe needed a different approach too. It reminds me of when Charlottd Mason said that we don't need to give children chewing instruction or food-digestion lessons.<br /><br />Lynn, you were lucky to spend that time reading. In our class we just got to staple papers.Mama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-72827321274116568112016-09-04T15:32:51.407-05:002016-09-04T15:32:51.407-05:00Oh good heavens, I had almost forgotten the SRA bo...Oh good heavens, I had almost forgotten the SRA box. When I passed the last level during the first month of the school year, my 6th grade Reading Class teacher sent me to an empty classroom with a cassette recorder for the remainder of the school year, where I recorded audio books for the school library. So the irony there is that out of my entire class, I was the only student who got to actually READ... and I had to be sent out of Reading Class to do so.Lynn Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-86860012571655035942016-09-04T15:29:49.690-05:002016-09-04T15:29:49.690-05:00Isn't it interesting that the originator of th...Isn't it interesting that the originator of these was not a teacher, but a psychologist stuck in a classroom, and he did not know what to do. And somehow, he brokered this into a better position for a curriculum company which was looking to expand its market. <br /><br />I loved these for the competitive effect- I tore through them as fast as I could, trying to beat my whole grade. One girl was faster than I was, and that's mainly what I remember- not any of the stories or dumb questions.<br /><br />I do wonder how the kids stuck in the lower levels fared. There's nothing in those cards that helps you learn. You are asked how well you did, and given questions about the content, some of them require the student to make inferences from the reading. But I do not recall anything explaining *how* you could improve those skills you didn't already have.<br />DHMhttp://thecommonroomblog.comnoreply@blogger.com