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posted by
mellyn
on June 13, 2005 at 12:20 AM
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Taps, that is the isue at hand here. In the 70's evidently a lot of
ESL programs relied on "English-Only" strategies. The Asian students were well-equipped with an equivalent 6th grade education. A few hundred vocabulary words and they were off and running. Today's ESL student is far different.
I think it was Tom Peters who wrote, "to ignore changing realities is to ensure failure". I think this is why we are seeing change.
posted by
kingmi
on June 12, 2005 at 8:09 PM
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kingmi, I have read a lot of your students works that you have shared. I have wondered how those same students fair in writing in their first language.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 12, 2005 at 8:04 PM
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TAPS, I just had a very revealing conversation with my ex-, who is an
elementary school teacher. I do know that sIOPS began as teaching regular ed. teachers basic ESL strategies (which have led to the 44.4% youknowwhat). Seems that some of my screaming has taken root. SIOPS now is a literacy strategy similar to literacy-collaborative model, not evidently the REading Recovery model (shame).
posted by
kingmi
on June 12, 2005 at 7:46 PM
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If anyone can do it, its you, kingmi. By the way, googled SIOPS out of curiosity and the site looked like it was written in Portuguese, so I still don't know what it is. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on June 12, 2005 at 7:20 PM
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littlems, thank you for the nice visit and comments.
posted by
kingmi
on June 12, 2005 at 3:37 PM
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Enjoy the rest while you can get it!
And by the way, that last post you visited of mine was defintely fiction! LOL maybe you need another little nap!!!
posted by
littlemspickles
on June 12, 2005 at 3:03 PM
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