One of Harvest Preps strengths is Eric Mahmouds commitment to continuous improvement and the flexibility to more quickly adapt curriculum and teacher training for better results. RE: implementing the new Common Core curriculum: In Harvest classrooms the new reading instruction methods look like anything but “drilling and killing.” One recent morning found three groups of kids working with two teachers in a second-grade classroom.... One group is clustered together reading quietly.,,,,Another is arrayed around a teacher in one corner working on vocabulary words. In the opposite end of the room a second teacher is engaged in “close reading,” the process of examining a text — a story about teasing and self-esteem — for everything from the author’s intent to inferences and structural cues. The teacher is asking questions to elicit basic responses followed by more elaborate ones.........
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:54:38 +0000
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