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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Differentiation is a concept that doesn't make much sense if your pedagogy is already progressive and/or if your approach is to teach in ways that are designed to address and develop a variety of different learning styles. Arguably, it's not the teachers who differentiate; the kids do it themselves by picking up on and exploring different aspects[/quote]

I respectfully disagree with this assertion, based on our experience in one of the area's mostly progressive, competitive-entry private schools.

The reason:  there must always be a ceiling.  The sky isn't the limit during class time, due to understandable constraints such as the materials that are available to &quot;explore.&quot;   There is a necessary limit on the books, maps, microscopes, whatever that are made available during a given 50-minute bloc.

My own child hits the limit, if you will, quite frequently in subjects like science and social studies.  Here he is (again, very understandably) not allowed to go off and conduct his own experiments using rare/expensive/potentially dangerous materials -- just because the mood overtakes him and he wants to investigate further.   So he sits and twiddles his thumbs while the (very good) teacher explains mass &gt; liquid &gt; vapor at a reasonable pace to the others.  Again.

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