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[quote=Anonymous]Dear God

Learn this, OP:

Standards are standards. They are concepts to master.

However, the teacher MUST turn them into student-friendly mastery objectives and scaffold lessons - using differentiated methods - to reach all students.

Standards stay the same; methods change.

good grief

[quote=Anonymous]This is a spin off of the Common Core thread.

A poster is saying that the Common Core standards are bad, the standards are too high for kids with learning disabilities.

So my question is, what would standards look like, that were variable enough to allow for such differences in ability?

For example:

By the end of 3rd grade, students will be able to:

(reading fluency standard)

- read a grade level text (if they are reading on grade level) with fluency and comprehension
- read slightly below grade level test (if they have mild learning disabilities)
- read at a primer level (if they have severe learning disabilities)
- begin to know letter-sound correspondences (if they have severe phonological disability)
- identify the front and back of a book (if they have never been in school before)

etc?

You would like to have different standards for every different ability?   Or what exactly?

Do you think it is acceptable to tell parents of a child (or the child herself) that she has not yet mastered the benchmark standards for her grade, if the reason she hasn't yet made the standard is that she has a learning disability?   That is, would you say a child who is in 5th grade, but is reading at a second grade level, should receive an A for 5th grade reading (or proficient, or whatever grade you are using) because she is doing the best she can?[/quote][/quote]

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