Making standards meaningful in the classroom is possible if you have plenty of time for mastery.
Some people say standards are dumbed down. Maybe they mean mastery is dumbed down. Mastery takes lots of time, and the regular school schedule is more inflexible than ever.
Max and Max Spanish videos are made with this in mind. We get very strong, positive feedback from schools who understand that we are interested in real schedules, not theoretical ones. The only way to look at language standards in most K-8 situations is across the years, not year by year.
It’s smart to see them that way, because the daily school schedule rarely aligns with the standards.
Tags: Academia