Welcome to EDL 522. As part of the requirements for this course you will be required to post comments to this blog after every class session. These comments should be a reflection of the readings, lectures, guest speakers, activities, or discussions that occurred during the day. I hope you enjoy the class and I will do my best to share with you the theoretical and practical lessons that you will need to be a successful school administrator.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thoughts from 10/12
I am glad we are going to be doing the data analysis activities, even if they make me feel like the dumbest person on the planet. Again, I have worked for the past five years in facilities that have not had to collect data, and make AYP. This is something I need to keep up on, even if I just look at the data from neighboring school districts to where I live. Through the class discussions, I have realized some of the disservice that a few of the educators in the youth facility did to both the students and the schools that they went back to. These are the teachers that we discussed who went to "work" and shouldn't really be in education any longer. They only made the students fill the seats. They did not set high expectations for achievement in their classrooms. Then the students went back to their home schools, and possibly negatively affected the AYP.
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