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[quote=Anonymous]It all depends on the teacher’s motivation and classroom management skills.  It can work well or poorly.

In my elementary, we switched among 3 different teachers during the school day - Reading / Spelling / Grammar, Math, and everything else.

My 4th grade math teacher was un-motivated, only went through the motions, and gave everyone a “satisfactory” unless a parent complained about their DC. We did not learn much.  Parents thought their kids were doing fine, even though we had some kids who should have received extra pull-out help to catch up.  No practice worksheets and she taught everyone in one big group, lecturing for nearly all of the period.

My 3rd grade math teacher was motivated and had good classroom skills.  By the end of the 2nd week, she had figured out where each student was academically.  She dealt with the class in 3 slices.  At the start of class period, she gave the top group their practice worksheets and middle group their practice worksheets to fill out.  Then she spent about half the period with the low group, trying to bring them up via direct instruction at the whiteboard.  She then gave the low group their practice worksheets and taught the middle group via direct instruction.  Then the top group.  All the math problems were simple to grade, but she did that outside classtime.[/quote]

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