After reading this chapter I have found many things that really stand out to me and make me think I have got it all wrong. Textbooks? Yes! This heading had me intrigued by the punctuation used. As was reading this I was sat in my classroom looking tyring to find my textbooks. Yes, I have only been back for 2 weeks but have I actually looked and thought about these valuable resources right in front of me? No! I totally agree with Jamey on the textbook issue. Last year I found that students couldn't even open a textbook and find the page number I put on the board. I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me. I can remember thinking that finding answers from text that we read was going to be a crucial skill that would not only help them in second grade but take them all the way into college.
The next thing that stood out to me was limiting the essential standards. I feel as a teacher I only have so many months before the MAP test to get all the GLEs taught. I liked the criteria developed by Doug Reeves to reduce the number of standards we teach: Endurance, Leverage, and Readiness for the next level. I don't know about you guys but "less is more"!
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