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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an ESOL teacher and I sometimes pull non-ESOL students into my small group. They need additional support learning letters and sounds. It doesn’t mean they are an ESOL student. [/quote]

How do you decide they just don’t need to be in class during that time? [/quote]

The entire class is in a small group at that time. The teacher has a group, the para has a group, the intervention teacher has another group and I have a fourth group. Every group is working on their own needed skills then. Nobody is missing any instruction. [/quote]

But the teacher is presumably teaching the kids on grade level. So by pulling the kid who doesn’t need to learn those “skills” you are depriving them of learning. [/quote]

You envision a classroom where kids magically parse out into one “on grade level” group and the rest interventions, but that’s not realistic. We also flexibly switch groups: who needs work on vowel teams this week, who needs the silent e, who needs blah blah. The groups change depending on the instructional focus. In math, for example, I might do a preassessment on Monday, groups T W Th, and wrap up Friday, then do the same thing with a new concept next week, and no, the groups aren’t the same every time. It’s all a multi ring circus, and often kids take turns working with different teachers in the same room on different skills. Particularly at the early levels, students are better able to focus and work in small groups.[/quote]

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