Evidence-based teaching methods for helping students who are at risk for school failure or who have disabilities.
Sometimes when I grow weary of the happytalk and know-nothingness that seems all too common in education, I turn to various sources for reminders that there are some folks who take hard, clear, grounded looks at instructional issues. Here are a couple for all two readers of this source to peruse:
Over on Another Day in Pleasantville, a teacher who identifies herself as “Pleasantvillian” posts—with wry and understated wit—about her teaching experiences. One post is about her observation early in the school year in a special day class where she saw a teacher requesting that students practice raising their hands and answering “here” when the teacher called the roll.
Teacher: “Diane. Okay, now Diane, when I say your name, I need you to say here and raise your hand. Now what do you say?”
Diane: “Thank you”
Teacher: “No, you say “here”. Can you say “here”?”
Diane: “Here”
Teacher: “Good. Now raise your hand. (pause) Diane, raise your hand. (pause) “Come on.”And Diane just stared back. I tried to hold back a laugh. Apparently, the teacher had forgotten that Diane’s arms are velcroed to the side of her body because she engages in self injurous behaviors.
Ooops! Mayhaps it’s just a mistake. They happen. Mayhaps dysteachia is alive and well in Pleasantville.
Link to Ms. Pleasantville’s post.
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