Rachel Chihil
EDL711
December 2009
WSU
Prompt 3: Questions for Dr. Payne
If you had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Payne over coffee, what are two open-ended questions you would likely ask her regarding the framework?
1.) Dr. Payne has a great deal of helpful information in her text. My first question would be of all her methods and techniques in her text, which one she has had the most success with. Which she would give first to a struggling educator teaching in a school with a high level of poverty.
2.) Currently working in a school where there is an extremely high level of poverty, and with 3/4ths of our teachers being first year educators it is quite chaotic. I have given teachers ideas to implement in the classroom, they have read her book yet they continue to struggle. Where would she recommend me beginning in helping them. I know they need to try new techniques, never give up, and if something does not work try another method; however when that fails, what next?
I think this is a very important question(#2) for Dr. Payne. I think this info on poverty should be a focus for undergraduates pursuing a teaching career. I too would like to know how Dr. Payne advises entry level teachers to handle students in poverty. Economically disadvantaged students tend to have a lot more "baggage" than those who are not economically disadvantaged. This "baggage" provides us more challenges as we try and engage students in learning.
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