Reflection #5

Please post your response to your reflection blog by Sunday, April 10.

After reading A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students; address (a) whether or not you support the authors’ position in serving students with special gifts and talents and why, (b) which myths or truths revealed within this text caught your attention, and (c) whether you believe TEA's policies on serving students with special gifts and talents complement or contradict acceleration and why.



Note: You can access the two documents that I would like for you to read from our eCollege weekly agenda. As I addressed in the adobe presentation, I am not advocating one approach over another, but simply providing you with multiple perspectives.

Reflection #4

Please address the following reflection question and post to your blog by Sunday, March 27.

After reviewing TEA’s policies on serving English Language Learners, (a) discuss whether you believe TEA’s policies align with the best practices that you read about in preparing for last week's discussion board assignment and why, (b) highlight TEA policy information that may have caught you by surprise, and (c) identify changes that you desire to be implemented in reference to TEA’s approach towards serving ELLs (if you believe changes are necessary).