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My experience as a student under the former regime (dedicated gifted classes) and the parent of a student under the latter (ad hoc whatever) is that the latter
by allturtles 5y ago
My experience as a student under the former regime (dedicated gifted classes) and the parent of a student under the latter (ad hoc whatever) is that the latter is, relatively speaking, a joke.
It throws all the onus on teachers who have 20+ kids to teach to the basic state standards. They can't possibly develop and oversee individual sub-curricula for different levels in each subject. They do their best, but it's just not possible for them to dedicate more than a tiny fraction of their time to special instruction for advanced students.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> My experience as a student under the former regime (dedicated gifted classes) and the parent of a student under the latter (ad hoc whatever) is that the latter is, relatively speaking, a joke. My experience as a student under the former regine and parent of a very-high-proficiency student under the latter (because he is in a charter school that does this even though it isn't yet a state standard) is that the new model works quite a bit better. This is also confirmed by the results of comparative before and after study of places that have switched from the old model to the new model, which is the motivation for making the new model a standard.
- allturtles 5y agoI'd be curious to see those studies. I'm not sure what you can learn from looking at charter schools, as long as they remain exceptional and outside the main system. There is a charter school in our district that effectively is a gifted school - it is explicitly a college prep school.