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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher perspective here.

If the school isn't great at differentiating, then I don't know if it is will be beneficial to ask a teacher to do more differentiating.

Good differentiating has to happen in the lesson planning stages so you can build varying depths of concepts as well as connections and extensions into the lesson. If a teacher isn't great at differentiating and doesn't do it in the planning stages it is really overwhelming to try and do it at the lesson stage because at that point it feels like making an individual lesson for each child (or the 10 kids who need something a little extra) and that is overwhelming and pretty much impossible.

Some teachers are great at adaptive teaching and modifying it during the lesson to meet individual needs and others pretty much just teach the content and hand out the work associated with that lesson regardless of individual needs.

So I guess I would say it depends on your perception of the teacher. If s/he seems to be someone who is invested in the kids and their learning, then a conversation can be very beneficial. If s/he is overwhelmed or not really skilled at differentiating or just teaches to the text, then a conversation will probably not be beneficial. [/quote]

This is the laissez-faire/"oh well, some teachers might not be very good but there's nothing you can do about it" approach to teaching.  This is the cross your fingers and hope you get lucky and have a good teacher scenario. [/quote]

No it is the just the realistic "if your kid got a crappy teacher, you are unlikely to turn them into a teacher that meets your expectations by asking them to do better". You will have to augment more at home.[/quote]

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