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Ontario professor says kindergarten research was misrepresented
In an earlier post, I mentioned a kindergarten study from Ontario that received media attention following a news release by the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences . It raised questions about the value of full-day kindergarten.
That prompted a response from B.C. Education Minister George Abbott , defending the full-day kindergarten program that will be offered in all B.C. public schools this fall. (Find that post here ).
Now, the researcher involved in that study has written to the Windsor Star, which also published reports about her work, to clarify what she has been doing. Here is an excerpt from the letter penned by Prof. Rachel Heydon of the University of Western Ontario's education faculty:
I have been working on a pilot that will hopefully lead to an examination of full-day kindergarten literacy curriculum and how it is produced.
The work done to this point is to determine how this can be accomplished.
The pilot, which the editorial refers to as a "study," inaccurately states that we looked at two full-day kindergarten classes. In fact, we only visited two locations to this point in our research; one half-day kindergarten and one daycare centre.
We have not had the opportunity to observe a full-day kindergarten setting.
Information we gathered to date is not nearly sufficient for anyone to use as a validation of their views, no matter what they may be, of full-day kindergarten.
A media release that was issued as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Science last week inaccurately characterized our preliminary research as being more fulsome than it is, in fact, at this point.
That media release was later retracted.
I am deeply concerned that reference to my preliminary work on this subject as being a full-fledged study rather than a pilot may jeopardize my ability to engage in this area of study at all.
I would be pleased to share my findings on this subject matter after I have engaged in a diligent and complete study, at some point in the future.
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That prompted a response from BC Education Minister George Abbott, defending the full-day kindergarten program that will be offered in all BC public schools this fall. (Find that post here).
FIRST A REQUEST -- I'm looking for parents with children born late in the year (Oct-Dec) who decided to delay their entry into kindergarten for a year to give them time to mature.
Here is another email I received in response to the study suggesting December-born babies do poorly in school compared to their January-born counterparts . . . the writer asked not to be
Monday's newspaper carried my story about a study that found December-born children fall behind in kindergarten and never catch up. With that story was another written by the Sun's Chad Skelton,
Kindergarten children in BC public schools will be assessed for physical, social, emotional and intellectual development starting in fall 2012, Education Minister George Abbott is promising.
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Molly brought home her kindergarten report card yesterday. I completely skipped over the grades section, and went right to the teacher comments, written by Molly's teacher.
As a teacher, I remember when we shifted from hand-written report cards to computer generated ones. We bubbled grades for achievement and effort in each area, and chose narrative comments from a list provided by the county, similar to this . As teachers, we loved the new system; it was a less cumbersome than handwritten comment sections, and as long as we bubbled the correct gender for a child, the report card comments were guaranteed to be error free and grammatically correct.
But now, as a parent, I have to say I MUCH prefer the intimacy of a comment written directly by the teacher. When I read what Molly's teacher wrote, I see Molly in there. Her teacher used words to describe Molly's writing and reading that would never appear on a generic list of comments. There's no substitute for the specificity and warmth one gets with teacher generated comments.
I'm wondering what other parents and teachers feel about the issue of report cards. Should we be moving toward generic, pick-your-comment formats that explicitly address only state mandated objectives, or should we demand something that really tells us something about how our child is doing? And, what can we do to ease the burden on teachers who opt for a more personal approach?
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