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I agree with your last point whole-heartedly. We need to start adjusting for ability and proficiency as early as 2nd grade. The big challenge with all teaching
by snarf21 8y ago
I agree with your last point whole-heartedly. We need to start adjusting for ability and proficiency as early as 2nd grade.
The big challenge with all teaching is that you must teach to the "middle" ability child. Instead of splitting by age we should be splitting into groups like the top 45% in one class, the next 35% in the next and the bottom 20% in the last. This lets each child have more or less time based on the aptitude and creates smaller deviance between the "middle" and top/bottom of each group.
- soVeryTired 8y agoThe stigma of being in the bottom 20% is hard to get rid of, though.
- snarf21 8y agoAbsolutely true. However, everyone knows who the kids are that got an F on the test anyway. In this structure, they get more help and may be more able to get a C- instead. It is even more so with math since everything builds on previous knowledge unlike something like history.
- tropo 8y agoStigma isn't all bad. It's a motivating factor. Decades ago, the norm was to post grades on the wall for all to see. We lost a lot of motivation when we got rid of that.
- rmah 8y agoMany public schools do exactly that.