Response to Carolyn

In my TE classes, we have talked few times about a scripted curriculum. Many of us including me think a scripted curriculum can be helpful but it is not realistic. If a teacher is reading from a scripted curriculum, we don’t need to go to college and take classes to learn how to be a teacher and learn how to teach students. Also with a scripted curriculum, I think there is a limitation. I have not seen a scripted curriculum for real, so I am not sure how it is written but every class is different. Nobody can expect what kind of students will be in our classroom. Each classroom needs their own instructions and modifications depend on the students. I am not sure about the idea of reading being a collaborative effort. I like the idea of students help each other to understand the text or guide them to read. However, at some point they all should learn how to read and comprehend by themselves without help from others. And I am surprise to hear that it is supposed to take around 3 weeks to train students but your class been going on the sixth week of school and still have quite a ways to go. I am sure students are bored doing it because it has been dragged or last for so long when it should not be. Also, I am not sure if students can handle “coach” other students even though they have been trained. Using my 5th graders as an example, most of them do not like to read so my MT and I always pushing them to read during silent reading time. If not, they will just daydream and look for chance to talk to their neighbor. So imagine students are in a pair doing reading together when they don’t care about reading and not taking this serious, I don’t think this will help students at all.