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[quote=Anonymous]6th grade AAP teacher here…

1) I meet with all my kids for reading once a week in small groups. We only have 1 hour for reading and it is at the end of the day. Between the lesson, pulling a group and monitoring behaviors , that is all I can do in the time frame to make it meaningful. Also, LA instruction has changed drastically since science of reading has been implemented and next year will look even different once we get basals. I honestly have no idea how the county plans to utilize these.

2) Our school looks at IReady data to place kids in Advanced Math if they were in Gen Ed math.

3) Some schools don’t have the staffing for departmentalization and grouping kids. My team has only 3 teachers. If there are 60 kids and only 15 are above, 10 are on grade level and the rest are below, the sections will be imbalanced. It would be doable with four teachers but it honestly depends on numbers and needs.

4) I think a huge reason Gen Ed has been watered down so much is due to the influx of ESL students. The ESOL staffing is a joke in ES. In middle/high school all Level 1/2 ESL students are in ESL classes for all major subjects. Levels 3/4 are usually in team taught and have an extra class. My school has 3 ESOL teachers for 200 kids.

5) What I would like to see? If we are going to test these kids yearly, use the data and offer any kid adv reading or math that needs it. They need to test in yearly. As for SS/Science, a lot of the AAP materials can be used with all students. I would like the ESOL staffing ratio to be 1 teacher for 25-30 kids. I would like the ability for the school systems to expel students with behaviors.

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