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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know anything about Norwood if you're not part of the Norwood community? Please stop spreading mis-information about things you have no knowledge of. [/quote]

Honestly, you've got a point.  Here's what I think I know, and those who are in the Norwood community can please tell me if I have it wrong.  Mostly I get it from here, and a little bit from a Norwood teacher I knew briefly a few years ago.

1) Kids at Norwood are divided into reading groups and math groups that are ongoing, by that I mean that you go to the same reading and math group on Tuesday that you went to on Monday, and you'll go there again tomorrow.  These groups are quite separate, with different teachers, and sometimes different rooms.

2) Groups are made up based on "ability".

3) Kids in different groups are working on different material, or through the same material at different paces.

4) These groups take up the majority or maybe all of the math instructional time, and a significant portion of the reading time.

5) Some members of the Norwood community, perhaps only parents, or perhaps only one parent who posts over and over again at DCUM refers to this as "differentiation".

Now, I'll be clear that I don't actually know if any educators use the word Differentiation to describe this.  If they do, it would raise red flags for me because they're using the word wrong, which makes me think they either aren't following the current literature in education, they aren't understanding it, or they are knowingly misleading parents.  If it's only parents who are using this word this way, then I apologize, of course administrators can't be held responsible for the vocabulary choice of parents.[/quote]

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