Tracking Presentation

Overall, I thought Chrissy and Justin did a good job presenting. It is always hard to go first and they set the bar high for everyone else. Tracking is such a debated issue these days. It was nice to see different ideas for and against tracking and statistical data to back up both sides. Using a few different strategies including videos and PowerPoint slides, they gave us the pros and cons of tracking. It would have been easy for them to get up in front of the class and just talk about the cons of tracking, but they showed us the the truth is there are some pros to tracking, although they may be out weighed by the cons. They did not, for the most part, include their personal opinions about tracking, instead they just stated facts, allowing the listener to make our own conclusions. They ended with an example of a school without tracking. Since most of us have experienced tracking in our educational experience, it was nice to take a look at Souhegan High School and observe how they do things and their personal outcomes and achievements.
In your paper as well as mentioning it in your presentation, you brought up the idea of the effects that tracking has on teachers, including senior teachers being able to choose the track they want to teach, often times leaving the most inexperienced teaching with the lower track and hardest group of students to teach because they are often times not challenged enough.
I only had a few suggestions. First, there was a lot of lecturing, although one discussion was derived from one of the videos, the whole presentation consisted of listening to the speakers, which become a little boring. I also thought that the statistical data that was shown on the PowerPoint was hard to read and hard to understand. I wish it hard been presented in a different manner although I do not know how it could have been presented in a different fashion; possibly use more graphs instead of words, as I am a visual learning. Besides those two suggestions I thought the presentation was good.