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Ayotola Oronti's picture

Re-Splleeng iz stoopid

Submitted by Ayotola Oronti on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 12:24pm.

I agerr wthi yuo thuogh soem studtens make it so hard to believe that it is really working without teaching spelling per se. Our school district took out spelling as a stand-out component of our literacy block. We are still allowed to have a five to ten-minute mini-lesson on spelling but not allowed to go deep in that direction. 

There are two problems:

  1. teachers who are of the old school still believe they should spend time on spelling while the district says not like that. 
  2. parents remember the way they learn and they think their kids should be taught the same way. That is always a problem but some of us have mastered the art of helping parents get in the flow of educational advancements.

The very first thing I do is get parents over to my side by working to gain their approval and confidence from the very beginning. With that they will be receptive to the education bits I want to share with them about their child through the year. More professional development will help teachers and together we will achieve "getting it less wrong".

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