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My kids are in high school and college now, so elementary school was a few years ago, but I am surprised at how much it sounds like things have changed in the classrooms. I have experience with both a regular and a center school and in both of those schools, teachers divided kids up into ability based groupings for math and language arts on a regular basis, pretty much every day and for most of the day. The regular school, in particular, did a lot of team teaching where two classes were combined and then split up into smaller ability groups and work was assigned accordingly.

[b]Are you all saying that teachers don't do this anymore? And that they are teaching every lesson in the same way to the entire class at the same time?[/b] I volunteered all through my children's elementary years and I never saw classrooms run this way. 
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I'm curious about this. Is the classroom experience changed that much from just a few years ago? Anyone have any insight into this?
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No, they are still flex-grouping for language arts and math. The upper flex group for math is on grade level ahead. The GE and AAP are taught separately. The change is in science and social studies, and its not really a change. The curriculum has always been the same. The GE and AAP teachers are just team teaching for these subjects. They have never provided different curriculums for SS and science.  The difference was the in depth projects. They are now offering those projects to the GE as well. They are mixing the kids for some of these projects. [/quote]

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