how big are the K classes at Hyde, elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anyone from Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Hardy is a middle school, so unlikely that anyone with a 6th, 7th, 8th grader would open this thread.

[Anonymous]

Hyde has 2 k classes with 28 and 29 - one teacher and one assistant each. The extra assistant teacher (mentioned in the article) was not hired.

Hyde has Spanish and Chinese classes this year. Since it didn't have any language class before, some parents probably don't know about them.

Hyde will have mixed classes on next year (k and 1st grades). And the school already has a mixed 4th and 5th grades.

[Anonymous]

how does a mixed class work? does that mean you could have, for example, a very advanced 1st grader working in the same (large!) class with a K student who is struggling with K-level work?? How would a teacher handle this vast difference in ability/level/etc.?

[Anonymous]

Hyde has Spanish and Chinese classes this year. Since it didn't have any language class before, some parents probably don't know about them.

Is this during the school day and part of the curriculum, or do you need to keep your child after school to take advantage of this?

[Anonymous]

Barnard parent - this means PS3 is underenrolled right? I'm interested for next year. Do you like it?

[Anonymous]

West is 25 with one teacher and one full time aide. ELL and SPED pull outs with a full time teacher for each.

[Anonymous]

Afterschool only for a couple of times a week. Pay extra.

Anonymous wrote:

Hyde has Spanish and Chinese classes this year. Since it didn't have any language class before, some parents probably don't know about them.

Is this during the school day and part of the curriculum, or do you need to keep your child after school to take advantage of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:26 teachers??

Anonymous wrote:26 teachers at Cooke. One aide, one teacher. One extra teacher to do "extra tutoring" and fill in when needed.

oops, 26 students.

[Anonymous]

I've heard that Title I public schools in DC (those with a certain % of low income kids) have a lower student/teacher ratio than the richer schools. I've even heard it suggested that this is a well-kept secret about the east of the park schools--smaller classrooms (or ratio). Is this true? If so does anyone know the exact numbers?

[Anonymous]

28 stoddert: one teacher and one aide

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard parent - this means PS3 is underenrolled right? I'm interested for next year. Do you like it?

We do like it, our teacher is great and the aftercare is nothing too exciting but the kids are separated by age and seem to like playing with friends from outside their own classrooms. No language classes or science enrichment (yet) in aftercare. It should definitely be in the running for anyone looking in easterly NW, especially if you live near Petworth.
They have a great principal & a good autism and special ed and ESL program. The parent group is well intentioned but just getting started, there are a lot of parents and a few teachers who don't seem to have discovered the internet yet.
Downsides: Lack of diversity (yes I mean not many white kids, 1-3 per class out of 14, rest about 50% AA & Hispanic, not sure about Asians) Some of the older kids on the "big kids" playground and brothers and sisters who come at pickup time use bad language. There is some serious ghetto style going on with some parents, it's not upper NW that's for sure, but the little kids are nice and DD has a lot of friends.

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Anonymous wrote:how does a mixed class work? does that mean you could have, for example, a very advanced 1st grader working in the same (large!) class with a K student who is struggling with K-level work?? How would a teacher handle this vast difference in ability/level/etc.?

Good questions. The mixed classes sound horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how does a mixed class work? does that mean you could have, for example, a very advanced 1st grader working in the same (large!) class with a K student who is struggling with K-level work?? How would a teacher handle this vast difference in ability/level/etc.?

Good questions. The mixed classes sound horrible.

Completely depends on how the class is structured. There can be alot of different levels even at one grade level so how to differentiate instruction for the class is a challenge no matter what. Alot of the DC elementaries use readers and writers workshop as a way to do this....they teach the kids how to do work independently (or in pairs) at their own level and then work with small groups of students on specific issues/lessons. Usually there is also some full class work as well. It's a way of managing a classroom of students at many different levels and individualizing instruction for them. It works well when teachers are well-trained in this approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how does a mixed class work? does that mean you could have, for example, a very advanced 1st grader working in the same (large!) class with a K student who is struggling with K-level work?? How would a teacher handle this vast difference in ability/level/etc.?

Good questions. The mixed classes sound horrible.

Completely depends on how the class is structured. There can be alot of different levels even at one grade level so how to differentiate instruction for the class is a challenge no matter what. Alot of the DC elementaries use readers and writers workshop as a way to do this....they teach the kids how to do work independently (or in pairs) at their own level and then work with small groups of students on specific issues/lessons. Usually there is also some full class work as well. It's a way of managing a classroom of students at many different levels and individualizing instruction for them. It works well when teachers are well-trained in this approach.

Are you sure about that? I thought only the west of the park DCPS and a few select charters use those programs.