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Must everything be either required or prohibited? Wouldn't it be better to allow schools to try things their own way, observing each other's results and biasing
by Nifty3929 3y ago
Must everything be either required or prohibited? Wouldn't it be better to allow schools to try things their own way, observing each other's results and biasing over time toward what works, based on feedback from teachers and parents?
- gnicholas 3y agoFair point, in general. The difficulty is that certain strategies like cueing (using nearby illustrations to help guess what a word is) and relying on just the first letter of a word leads to improved outcomes at first, but worse outcomes when the kids start reading less-familiar words, and reading books with fewer pictures. A kindergarten or first grade teacher might think that it's great to use cueing and other non-phonics based strategies since it improves her kids' reading ability in the short-run. But studies show that it is harmful in the long-run, and should be avoided.
- everybodyknows 3y ago> improves her kids' reading ability in the short-run. This suggests it could be a way to game test-based systems for ranking teachers.