Not exact matches
While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations
do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the
summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.
Quinn wrote «
Summer Learning Loss: What Is It, and What Can We
Do About It?
, The
Summer Slide: What We Know and Can
Do About
Summer Learning Loss.
The statistics around
learning loss during the
summer months are nothing short of staggering, but your students don't have to be another statistic!
Some believe that there is more room for
summer learning loss with factual and procedural knowledge (i.e., knowing how to
do something) because these types of knowledge require continuous and frequent practice.
Not only
does summer learning loss accumulate across the 3 - month vacation, it also accumulates across grade levels and usually affects some students more than others.
This «
summer loss» results when students
do not practice what they have
learned often enough to keep the skills active.
What can principals and teachers
do now to plan for the prevention of
summer learning loss and hit the ground running on the first day of school?
For example, one city in the cohort doubled the number of
summer learning slots available to children in 2017, and
did so using the following data - based strategies: analyzing student data to identify the need for
summer programming, requiring providers to agree to track certain data about participants, and implementing pre - and post-tests to determine how effective these programs were in reducing
summer learning loss.
But
did you know that by the time a student gets to the 5th grade, the
summer learning loss can add up to a 2 - 3 year education gap?
This training is designed to provide a framework for
summer educational engagement and the importance for
doing so to combat
summer learning loss by providing information, resources, tools and discussions that will help school - age programs strengthen the role that they can play in supporting students and helping them to retain their school - year skills.
Many researchers refer to the achievement damage
done during these months off as
summer learning loss or the «
summer slide» as described on the US Department of Education's blog Homeroom.
According to a 20 - year study
done at Johns Hopkins University, and cited in a Time magazine cover story about
summer learning loss, «low - income elementary school students lost ground in reading each
summer, compared with their higher - income peers, who made progress.»