Comments on: A small school

By: cranky teacher

cranky teacher — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:21:33 +0000

These still exist. I know some folks with two kids in a K-12 in Trinity County that has nine kids.

This is not what we are talking about when we talk about differentiation — this is one teacher tutoring/teaching students in turns.

If I have nine students at different grade levels, it is about assessing their needs and securing/making the curriculum for that age and ability.

Differentiation is taking the same subject matter and making accessible and challenging to 30 students of the same age.

By: ProStudent

ProStudent — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:45:55 +0000

We could learn so much about differentiation from these teachers. I think the most powerful part about this school is the sense of community–that teacher knew those parents and all of the children.

By: Katy Murphy

Katy Murphy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:27:33 +0000

Ha – good one.

I think there was only one teacher — two, at most — at the school. They probably would have hightailed it out of the desert if they had to cover all of today’s “Content-Area Standards” for each grade.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:32:57 +0000

But did it make AYP with every demographic subgroup??