Comments on: Consequences of maleducation http://TeachEffectively.com/2005/09/09/consequences-of-maleducation/ Evidence-based teaching methods for helping students who are at risk for school failure or who have disabilities. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: JohnL http://TeachEffectively.com/2005/09/09/consequences-of-maleducation/comment-page-1/#comment-2195 JohnL Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:21:17 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/TeachEffectively/?p=87#comment-2195 Eka, thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree that you have a selected sample, that your students are not a representative sample. Still, I am discouraged that nowhere along the line did any educators take the necessary steps to teach them effectively. I hope to promote teaching—especially in reading—that reduces the proportion of students whom teachers in your situation encounter. Eka, thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree that you have a selected sample, that your students are not a representative sample. Still, I am discouraged that nowhere along the line did any educators take the necessary steps to teach them effectively. I hope to promote teaching—especially in reading—that reduces the proportion of students whom teachers in your situation encounter.

]]> By: erikarenee http://TeachEffectively.com/2005/09/09/consequences-of-maleducation/comment-page-1/#comment-2186 erikarenee Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:50:39 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/TeachEffectively/?p=87#comment-2186 Hi, I just wanted to comment that the students I teach are previous dropouts, students who left at the 8th grade level or later for many, many reasons. Most are low-income where the risk of leaving for early pregnancy, gang life or a job to assist the family is high. A good portion of them have undiagnosed learning disabilities that left them too frustrated and underserved to make it through the middle school, much less gain anything from overcrowded high school classes. The passage was an 8th grade reading level passage about superstitions in a small class of 8. I needed to assess their skill levels, and I'm not sure I went about it the right way (after seeing some of the reactions to reading out loud). It WAS painful to watch them struggle and to know that they've been failed along the way, but I did want to point out that this was a class of students who have fallen through the cracks and not necessarily a group representative of your typical American students. Hi,

I just wanted to comment that the students I teach are previous dropouts, students who left at the 8th grade level or later for many, many reasons. Most are low-income where the risk of leaving for early pregnancy, gang life or a job to assist the family is high. A good portion of them have undiagnosed learning disabilities that left them too frustrated and underserved to make it through the middle school, much less gain anything from overcrowded high school classes.

The passage was an 8th grade reading level passage about superstitions in a small class of 8. I needed to assess their skill levels, and I’m not sure I went about it the right way (after seeing some of the reactions to reading out loud). It WAS painful to watch them struggle and to know that they’ve been failed along the way, but I did want to point out that this was a class of students who have fallen through the cracks and not necessarily a group representative of your typical American students.

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