A few days ago
cute baby

Insufficient time to cater for all the different groups in mixed ability classroom?

Explain with examples how to handle this situation.

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A few days ago
Iris the Librarian

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Think about it. You have a classroom of 30 kids. Some are gifted. Some are average. Some are reluctant learners. Some are emotionally immature or emotionally damaged. Some are below average in ability. You are one person and you are the teacher. How are you going to be able to give individual attention to all of these kids and “take each from where he is to where he needs to go?”

When you are going over the pre-basics with the below average kids, the gifted kids are bored and throwing spit balls at each other. When you challenge the gifted ones, the average and reluctant learners drop out because it’s too hard. If you find a way to juggle those three groups and the below average kids, the emotionally disturbed students start acting out because they want attention.

Now you know why I quit teaching…

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A few days ago
Anonymous
I have so many examples of differenciated instruction that I could write here all night. As Principal let me explain what can happen: A school with only 9% White, a Title 1 Poverty school and we earned Exemplary Status two years in a row.

Check out these helps:

http://www.differentiatedresources.com/

http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/differentiated/front_differentiated.htm

The list goes on and I’m sure you can do your own comprehensive search, but here are some major perspectives of my great teachers:

“Have something meaningful for the students you arn’t working with to do”.

“Do testing to see not only what the student needs to know to catch up, but to get ahead. Do testing that is not only diagnostic, but prescriptive and lets you know how each student learns”

“My groups are not so much ability ranked, but made up of diverse abilities with common learning styles. Some hear what to do, others see what to do, some just like doing”.

Good luck in your quest. Hope this helps a little.

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