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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except MCPS is changing the way they do Compacted Math next year. No 4th graders will be bused to a middle school next year.

The rumors were just rumors, but the letter from Bowers that was discussed at the March 8 BOE meeting said MCPS would eliminate the current (i.e., previous) way of identifying students and begin an approach that the school identifies students, presumably to reach a larger group of kids.

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So does that mean that compacted math kids will be pulled out and all taught together at their home school?  Or does it mean that the teacher differentiates within the classroom (a method I do not see working because it doesn't seem to work for other subjects now).[/quote]

I listened to the BOE meeting and [b]I don't think this was addressed.  [/b]It will definitely occur at the home school but how that is done either hasn't been decided or is up to the individual school so probably best to raise concerns there.  Agree it wouldn't make sense to have a teacher cover both classes simultaneously, there's no reason the topics would even remotely coincide.[/quote]

I agree. The BOE meeting did discuss needs for better teacher training. My guess is that the teachers at the elementary schools will have 1 or 2 math groups in their class that are doing Compacted Math material and then other math groups for the non CM topics. It seems like the ES model for everything is large group instruction, small group instruction, and then individual/centers.

Sadly, I don't think MCPS has a clue on how they will be implementing this change. Pretty much par for the course for the county.

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Possibly, except at our, larger, ES compacted math has always been taught as a pullout class.  The thing is topics would quickly be out of alignment between the two groups.[/quote]

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