Learning Objectives

Which would you rather have? A teacher who can post some phenomenal objectives, written exactly how the school district wants but can't teach his/her way out of a paper bag OR a teacher who normally does post objectives and in a format taught to him by career teacher-educators, professors of education and may forget to re-post those objectives every now and then BUT delivers first rate, student-centered, pedagogically sound instruction? Which would you rather have?

On this day, I was sitting with a group of students who needed further instruction on fluency, so I used a reader's theatre approach with a script that was appropriate and a bit humorous. Meanwhile, another student who needed help with fluency, I had that person on a computer program practicing their sight words via a sight word bingo game. Still yet another student was on the computer on a fun educational website of their choice. The other students had just finished silent pleasure reading and were now partnered up (with a partner of their choice), spread out across the room, on carpets, in seats, cuddled on desks, and were reading to each other a book of their choice. BUT my search-engine, standards-based, SWBATs and IOTs were on a chart paper, flipped over because I used another sheet to TEACH because my technology was malfunctioning!

But we want to give some administrators more autonomy with hiring (site selection) and transfers (non-seniority based personnel transfer decisions) and with firing (proposal in Harrisburg to not base layoff on seniority)---not with the current college of principals we have now! The results for most, not all, but most will be cronyism, nepotism, favoritism, and any other "ism" and schism!!