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Educating for a Command-and-Control Culture
The following letters describe how administrators ensure that teachers
address the state content standards in a command-and-control culture. The
letters were published in the December 2002 edition of California Educator,
the magazine of the California Teachers Association.
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I teach in a school in a very low socioeconomic status community. The emphasis here is placed, not on our at-risk student population, but on
teachers' raising test scores. (I know this will hardly surprise you.) How are we to do this? We are to write on the board (three times a day for those of us who have three different kinds of classes each day) the following: date, agenda, lesson objective, relevant standards for the lesson and, beneath the number, the verbal equivalent of the standard--e.g., 4.1, reading comprehension, etc. It has to be on the left side of the board, as studies have shown that people look more frequently to the left than to the right when reading information.
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Candace Lawrence
Long Beach
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So this is what it has come to. Having forced me to post 13 posters of first-grade standards in my classroom, having me display the standard(s)being taught each day on the white board, having instructed me to inform the students which standard they are being taught, I have now been mandated to create "kid-friendly" standards that are to be posted in the front of
the classroom and be changed before each lesson. My anticipatory set now includes having to walk over and change the standard, making certain that the students understand which standard is being taught even before
beginning the lesson.
This is teaching?
Randy Freeman
Moreno Valley
California Educator
December 2000
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