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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you want your local public elementary school to perform free psychologist-led IQ tests on all children? (If it was an option, that is.) Ostensibly for the purposes of putting children into different groups and offering those with IQs of above a certain amount (let's say 130) to take part in [b]special small group instruction[/b]? [/quote]

This is already happening. No IQ test needed. In fact IQ is irrelevant to the differentiated instruction - actual performance and ability are the measure; and since those are variable, the groups can/do change with the needs and development of the child. [/quote]

Differentiation becomes near impossible when you have kids in the same class who are academic years and sometimes decades apart in ability. Kids with greater academic abilities will be left to their devices for the most part as teachers focus their efforts on struggling students. Also, by dividing a class into groups, it effectively means students get less direct instructional time with the teacher than when students are grouped by ability into different classrooms. Any teacher worth their mettle knows this.[/quote]

People keep telling me that, but I guess we've just been really lucky with the 9 teachers DCs have had so far. [/quote]

Differentiation can work really well as long as teachers balance time between different groups of students.However most posters on DCUM are convinced the only way their kid can be properly challenged is if their speshull snowflake is in a special snowflake classroom with a moat around it to keep the dumb kids out. Or pull outs so they can at least go off in another room for part of the day. I'm not sure if it's an ego thing (getting to brag your kid is in a gifted class, or because most people on DCUM have really incorrect notions on gifted/talented education (ie testing kids at 5, or worse using the CAS as proof of being gifted)

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