Chapter 2, titled "The Teacher as Schmidt" discusses that research and theory are taking over education mandates and should be used as a dialogic method to teaching, rather than an authoritarian method. Teachers are called on to make judgement calls on a daily basis and deal with 25-30 studens at a time. Teachers' goals are multiple and should be an ongoing series of microexperiments. I feel that when teachers are not given any freedom to experiment, then teachers lose the desire to teach.
According to Neuman (2002), "Reading instruction must be based on sound research and not employ the latest fad in instruction." However, the results of the interim study of the program Reading First show no reading comprehension gains than non-Reading First students. Therefore, I believe that education should be based on a sound mixture of research based theories as well as the teacher's method of teaching and experimentation.
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