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Sociological / Psycholinguistic
Bases of Bilingual Education
Notebook: 04, Debate
on Value of Summer School
The latest reports show at risk kids regress
the most educationally over the summer. Experts also point to the superior
qualities of enrichment type summer instruction instead of remedial classes.
Psychologists warn of the dangers of obligatory summer school. All of these
issues converge and what’s more is the observation that rote memorization and
lower order skills seem to be the first to regress whereas higher order thinking
and holistic broad strategies regress much less.
This brings us
to the TAAS and Texas, oh and bilingual education.
Why bilingual
education? If it happens to the rest of the children, it happens to English
language learners (ELL), and ELL’s have large numbers of at risk children
among their ranks.
Good summer
school cannot make up for poor teaching the rest of the year. Nor can it hope to
accomplish in 4 weeks, what the regular classroom could not do in 30.
Texas demands we
determine our educational merit through the TAAS, the aforementioned test
demands we pound home lower order thinking skills. Then summer comes and you
start all over, because these cognitively lower order abilities are the first to
regress when kids exchange paper and pencil for Pokemon and swimming pool.
Course Components:
- Cognitive
Theories Paper
- Legal Cases Analytical Paper
- Presentation
- Notebook
- Paper
- Professional
Development
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