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I taught AAP last year. Was assigned to it... I had never heard of anything like it. I came from New England. One thing I noticed was the gen ed kids in fourth seemed to be doing things I saw second graders do up north. I believe they were capable of way more but the standards were wonky and lower. The AAP standards seemed to be common core for the grade level and a bit from the next grade level in common core.

The students ranged from being a grade level behind in math up to like 9th grade math. It was really hard and people assumed since it was AAP all the kids were at similar levels but I’ll just say that was NOT true at all!! 
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Why are kids who are below grade level or even on grade level being placed in full time AAP?  I doubt people would complain as much if AAP only contained kids who were a year above grade level, and then the teachers only differentiated for 1 and 2 years above grade level.  It would make much more sense to have 2 differentiation levels in a class than expecting the teacher to differentiate all the way from below grade level through way above grade level.

Really, gen ed teachers should be differentiating one year below grade level through on grade level, AAP should differentiate one and two years above grade level, the kids more than one year below grade level should be receiving pull outs with the resource teachers to address their needs, and the few kids more than 2 years above grade level should supplement on their own.  [/quote]

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