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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a Title I school with a huge population of EMLs. Eureka is good, CKLA is fine but not great for many them, but it’s actually the pacing guide that MCPS requires us to follow is how our kids end up with gaps. It moves too fast. And I know this is controversial, but I think classes should be grouped by ability and they should switch for different subjects. If a kid is good at math then they go to a higher math classroom at math time. The way it’s divided that there is a big range of abilities in each class means that none of the kids are really getting what they need. [/quote]

I completely agree. I student taught years ago in a 3rd grade classroom. The three classroom teachers gave pre-tests for each math unit and then they sent kids who had mastered that topic to one teacher. The other two teachers had the kids who still needed more practice and the very low students who still had gaps. The lowest class was the smallest one and had the special ed teacher (and me) in  it. It wasn’t always the same exact kids in each group. It depended on their prior knowledge of the math topic. It worked out well for everyone. [/quote]

Love this model.

MCPS has ruined everything. They have taken away the art of teaching. In trying to standardize everything to make it "fair" they have ruined education. We used to have the freedom to do things like this to meet our students' needs. Not anymore. [/quote]

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