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[quote=Anonymous]Let me add that differentiation within a classroom is a skill that teachers should possess.  How to to reach each and every student? The better the ability of a teacher to differentiate, the better each student will progress.

But expecting a teacher to differentiate across an extremely wide range of skill and ability and exposure and rate of learning and special needs and language difficulties is madness.  Substituting differentiation for flexible and well managed ability grouping is like expecting your family car to fly you to Paris.  It's a fantasy fueled by some political agenda.

Traditional tracking did damage. It was harmful unfair and implemented poorly.  But scrapping it entirely and expecting differentiation to replace it will do just as much damage by paralyzing teachers and forcing them to involuntarily ignore the outliers in that wide variation.  Unless someone is inventing a super robotic perfect teacher machine, professional development can only help so much with this.

There are happy mediums here that support teachers and allow kids at all levels to move forward.  Anybody have some examples of something that falls between traditional rigid tracking and forcing a teacher to miraculously teach to everyones individual need at the same time?

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