Notes from the Field
Teachers Seek Real Empowerment
Submitted by Angela Chan, June 14, 2011
Angela Chan has been a teacher with the School District of Philadelphia for the last 8 years. She started her career as a first grade teacher. For the last four years she has been teaching 3rd grade.
Today’s post contains an excerpt from a presentation she made as speaker at TAG’S second annual Curriculum Fair and Citywide Summit. In this address she described the challenges which Empowerment School teachers face as they grapple with the expectation that they implement a mandated curricula and focus extensively on test prep activities. She also discusses the impact this new instructional reality has on her students and fellow teachers.
As an Empowerment School, we implement the mandated scripted Corrective Reading and Math programs, and