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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a special education teacher. I work with students in the general education classroom only, I don’t do pull out. One issue is that students who have LDs actually do require more time and reteaching to learn grade-level skills. It’s very hard to do that in Gen Ed because we move quickly in order to cover the ever-growing list of skills required each year. Then, we have to move forward before SWD have had enough time to become proficient. But if we don’t keep going we aren’t even exposing them to all that will be on the SOL. It becomes a cycle that results in them falling behind because if you need more time you aren’t able to cover something else that other students are getting. There is a lot of pressure to keep going and cover all the curriculum for good reason but it’s not best for SWD or even all students on these foundational skills. I don’t have a solution but we are literally trying so hard to get all students to meet these standards. We text on our off time with ideas of different ways to motivate and teach our students in new ways. We are always looking for new insight. But at the end of the day these are 10 year olds and we are relying on them to be motivated by a test that literally means nothing to them and requires developmentally INappropriate levels of attention and care.[/quote]

We have to become more comfortable separating kids by ability, even if it doesn’t feel good. Everyone working at their pace to MASTERY is much better than 1) forcing struggling learners to move on to the next topic when they haven’t mastered other foundational skills and 2) holding capable kids back to avoid hurt feelings.

Everyone should learn at his or her own pace. There’s no shame in that.

(And I am all for increased funding for higher-needs students. Smaller class sizes, more tutoring, etc. Because it’s absolutely true that some of these kids have the capacity to catch up. But making everyone else wait while they do so? Absurd.)[/quote]

Did you read what the teacher wrote? We need to stop measuring success or proficiency by tests that are not developmentally appropriate. [/quote]
I’m a teacher. We need to reduce the tests and separate by ability. [/quote]

AND

Thank you![/quote]

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