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[quote=Anonymous]My ES in the 80s had no tracking of any sort, just clustering... which basically meant I sat by myself during math period and tutored / answered questions for whichever group of kids wasn't working with the teacher at the moment. They'd do their independent assignments and if they got stuck they'd come to me. On the one hand, if there'd been a cohort of equivalent-level peers I would have enjoyed that (instead I got a couple hours of district-wide pullout session something like one or two days a month). On the other hand, having to teach the material to other kids helped me learn it deeper and more intuitively, trying different techniques or methods of explaining. I'm not sure there's a clear best way to do this, either in terms of how much to do the clustering/tracking within classrooms vs. between classrooms, or how big the AAP cohort should be etc., but *as long as teachers can find creative ways to keep kids engaged and challenged one way or the other*, I don't think the exact format or grouping of students really matters all that much, there's pros/cons to any approach. It's really about the teacher's ability to deliver (and the support they get in doing so), and that there's a _reasonable_ number of ability/aptitude groupings in the classroom (maybe 3-4 max?)[/quote]

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