2.0 Math Curriculum users?

[Anonymous]

I don't see any acceleration happening in my childs 2nd grade class, though her report card says tHat she will continue to be given accelerated work...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really encourage parents whose kids are bored or coming home without any wrong answers to push their teachers to give their child more appropriate level work. At first, I wouldn't request acceleration or re-grouping of classrooms because that will just be resisted. Instead, just keep pushing for more challenge. Eventually, after they fail to challenge your kid within the existing grade level curriculum and class room set up, then start pushing for acceleration. Be a pain in the a**. The current philosophy to lump kids of different levels into one class and then stick them with a curriculum geared for the middle group is not going to work for some struggling kids and for some top kids. Policy makers generally ignore special ed and gifted kid parents at public forums. Another avenue for parents, though, is to just continue speak up at the point where all the policies are implemented: the classroom. They say grand things about their policies, so press the teachers and the schools to show you something grand.

I think you capture the problem dead on. This is a shame. I hate that it has to be this way.

I know teachers are busy but do they not see that this is a problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really encourage parents whose kids are bored or coming home without any wrong answers to push their teachers to give their child more appropriate level work. At first, I wouldn't request acceleration or re-grouping of classrooms because that will just be resisted. Instead, just keep pushing for more challenge. Eventually, after they fail to challenge your kid within the existing grade level curriculum and class room set up, then start pushing for acceleration. Be a pain in the a**. The current philosophy to lump kids of different levels into one class and then stick them with a curriculum geared for the middle group is not going to work for some struggling kids and for some top kids. Policy makers generally ignore special ed and gifted kid parents at public forums. Another avenue for parents, though, is to just continue speak up at the point where all the policies are implemented: the classroom. They say grand things about their policies, so press the teachers and the schools to show you something grand.

I think you capture the problem dead on. This is a shame. I hate that it has to be this way.

I know teachers are busy but do they not see that this is a problem?

frankly burdening each individual teach with the interpretation of policy and single-handed multi-level curriculum development is a tall order and unworkable for 99% of teachers, unless class sizes are really small, like 15 or less/teacher. The principal at each school should really be doing this, and if your principal is against doing anything systematically differentiated for gifted kids, like having classes streamed per subject or having standard "one-grade-up" plan within each class - it's very difficult fo the school to offer much. The classroom is where policies are executed, but I think the school is also where they really should be implemented and interpreted.

although it was heartening that our principal put so much trust in each teacher's abilities, I was never convinced that without her own involvement gifted kids would get much - so we moved to fcps instead

[Anonymous]

How is FCPD different? My child isn't getting math acceleration In MCPS even though he is supposed to.

[Anonymous]

good