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Re: Is this OT?



At 9:51 -0700 9/6/02, Jane Jackson wrote:

Our Modeling Instruction Program has evidence. Two young teachers in our
program taught a highly successful integrated algebra and physics course to
9th grade Hispanic and black students in 2000-01 in an impoverished area of
urban Phoenix. They used Modeling Instruction, the only high school science
program designated exemplary by the U.S. Department of Education, and they
had the kids for 3 hours each day, all year long. Modeling Instruction and
extended daily time were the two most important factors in their success,
the teachers told me.

This is interesting, and encouraging. Modeling seems to be such an
obvious way to teach science that I am surprised that it needs an
advocacy group. But I have one question. Did the after-the-fact
analysis factor in the obvious beneficial effect of having the kids
for such a large chunk of time (15 hours a week for an entire year).
Most teachers that I know would kill for time availability like that.
And if that was coupled with a small class, they might even carry out
other despicable acts in return.

Hugh
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