tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post3374371935905858808..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: Academic growth charts offer parent guidanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-49525862905380160022013-10-17T11:39:24.662-04:002013-10-17T11:39:24.662-04:00Not a bad find.
I think it's always good to ...Not a bad find. <br /><br />I think it's always good to have more resources for parents.<br /><br />I've used quite a bit of online information while teaching our kids, some bad and some good.<br /><br />I think sites where the teachers share lesson plans are a good idea. Provided there is also some way to modify, improve, and critique them. <br /><br />That's an idea that's been around in other circles such as software development (and even corporate consulting) with some success.<br /><br />There is even a bit of a movement to develop lesson plans similar to the way "open source" code is developed.<br /><br />That is what the "Share My Lesson" resource seems to be developed around (and there are many others out there).<br /><br />I think some of these will be promising, but there will be some shakedown before the winners emerge.<br /><br />As "evaluations" go, I like to use a variety from time to time just to see how we're doing.<br /><br />I recently gave my son a math assessment for the Singapore Math curriculum.<br /><br />Now, according to all the public school tests, he is performing somewhere around the fifth grade level.<br /><br />He is in the third grade.<br /><br />The Singapore Math evaluation placed him squarely in the third grade, so I'm starting him with that curriculum since it contained quite a few things he hadn't seen yet and appears to be a well-thought out curriculum.<br /><br />At least with Singapore, you know they aren't a bunch of math dummies.<br /><br />One of his textbooks in school last year was horrible.<br /><br />(And this year, our public school is having problems granting parents access to the online math text, so I haven't been able to read it yet.)<br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-53874096626112921382013-10-17T11:37:47.620-04:002013-10-17T11:37:47.620-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.com