[MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell

[Bill Roberts]

. Joy said:
"I think it's important for me to remain flexible in my approach to reading 
instruction so I can always give my students what they need when they need 
it. I've had some criticism about what I do. Although the things I do are 
well researched, the research does not blend the various approaches 
together, so some have told me that I really am NOT using researched based 
instructional practices. Some have said you can't pick and choose, that 
following a best practice needs to follow the research as closely as 
possible in order to be valid. The way I see it, I am teaching children, not 
lab rats. I have to try to tailor what I'm doing to fit the needs of the 
particular set of children in my classroom."

Sums things up right there, doesn't it?

Bill