6+Cultural+Inconsistencies

Chapter 6 Cultural Inconsistencies

Cultural Inconsistencies is known as inconsistent messages we send our students during their K-12 experience. Some examples in Ch6 are: Ask kindergarten "what did you learn today?" Ask High School student "what did you make on that test?" Kindergarten teachers consistently check for understanding and find ways to be sure all students learn. The ICU system provides extra time and extra help, which is norm in the primary grades. Another main point in CH6 is: Secondary and Primary Paradigms. It states that if we bring the secondary paradigm down to primary grades, we will drag student apathy down with it.
 * How student apathy goes down each year in school from Kindergarten-excited to be at school and learn, less in 4th and 5th, even less in 8th and then another drop on High School.**
 * HS Teachers routinely put grades on assignments and tests and then move on, which is a total contrast to primary grading.**
 * The way a teacher looks at grades says alot about what is truly important to that teacher.**
 * Lower grade teachers say, "I teach children", upper grades say "I teach math, I teach science"**