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This is off-topic but your comment reminds me of a principle I learned when I was briefly studying to be a teacher, use extra enrichment material rather than tr
by InfiniteRand 5y ago
This is off-topic but your comment reminds me of a principle I learned when I was briefly studying to be a teacher, use extra enrichment material rather than tracking (ie, having the kids go further ahead in the main material) for advanced students so that the slower students do not feel discouraged or left behind and the faster students do not get bored.
- smeej 5y agoI got a book thrown at me in middle school by a teacher who thought I was lying that I'd finished the whole textbook when he told me to try working ahead if I was bored. When I handed him a stack of all the end of chapter tests to prove it we had to schedule a meeting with the principal to figure out what I should do next. It involved having to go to another school in the morning because mine didn't have anything else to teach me, and I can't help but think you're right that enrichment would have been a better solution for everybody than that was!
- walshemj 5y agoI remember in junior school there where about three or four of us who the teachers let read at our own pace.