Cy-Fair ISD Trustee Racially Divisive Statements (A Deserves Own Thread Thread)

The audit did not say that, and I thought you had stopped creating strawmen to argue against.

You need to tweak your meds again?

 

That doesn't illustrate anything except that your question isn't valid.

A good teacher will treat almost every student differently. They should be giving the students what they need to meet or exceed the standards. That means some will require different scaffolds and ways to express their learning.

All students should strive to reach the same goals, but they will need different tools and techniques to get there.

So asking if some students are treated differently isn't the right question.

 

I'm trying to go into the nuances to avoid more misunderstanding.

 

What are you talking about? I didn't call anyone racist. I'm not sure what you mean.

 

Treating someone differently is based on whatever scaffolds or enrichment is needed to help them meet or exceed the standards. It needs to be culturally relevant and responsive.

 

Sure, it looks like he recently moved from teaching into college administration. But it looks like he was an associate professor or full professor of Education for the last 12 years, per his LinkedIn. And he has a PhD in Education from U of Cincinnati. And it looks like he has 13 publications: Roger Cleveland's research works | Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky (EKU) and other places (researchgate.net). I can't tell if he's a giant in his field or anything, but he seems to have the markings of a credible, adequately qualified professional in the field of education. I don't know why you feel like you're in a position to put quotation marks around his expertise. The Board of Cy Fair thought he was adequately qualified when they hired him to do an audit.

 

Do you even know what a curriculum is?

You don't write curriculums for individuals.

You say the dumbest ****?

The entire education field is based on individualizing lessons for different learning styles.

 

It wasn't so much that they saw integration coming, it was because more blacks started moving into the surrounding areas... Northwood Manor, Scenic Woods and etc were all white... MB Smiley was the main High School at the time and it was a predominantly white high school back in the 60s, 60's and early 70's... In the late 70's things started to change... Carl Roaches went to MB Smiley..

T_Man

 

It isn't about writing a different curriculum. It is about giving students the tools they need to succeed.

If a student needs to be able to multiply 5 x 4 to meet the standard some students might need to have counters or blocks and put them into 5 groups of 4 and then count the total to realize the answer. Another student memorizes their multiplication tables. Another student counts by 5 four times. Another student draws an array of 5 rows and 4 columns.

An effective teacher will provide blocks or counters for the student that needs them to find the answer. The standard doesn't change. They still have to know the answer. The teacher might eventually ask students which ways they believe are the quickest as they progress in their comfort level with that standard.

A student who already knows the standard algorithm might be asked to find a different strategy to use so they approach solving the problem from a different angle, or be asked in a more algebraic way, such as 5 x _ = 20. What is the missing factor? Those students are exceeding this hypothetical standard. They might also be asked what other factors would have a product of 20.

Students who are in the group using counters today might be in the array group the next day, and they can move or change as their comfort allows. Scaffolds and tools can be removed and changed.

This is a simplified example, but hopefully you get the point. Different students need different tools, strategies and scaffolds to achieve the same standard. The standard shouldn't be lessened for any of the students, but the tools should be differentiated. Different students have different learning modalities, challenges and strengths. But it is less effective to tell a student that draws an array to meet the standard that are wrong and only the student who solves it with the algorithm is correct.