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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not had a chance to read all of the pages, but I am a current 5th grade elementary math teacher in a school which is working closely with the county and state monitoring our math scores.

1) How did MCPS say they were going to determine the 5 groups?
2) Did they explicitly state that group 1 had to be with group 5 and 2,3,4 together? Or were those the suggestions?

I ask because if the county is identifying the 5 groups, isn’t it the schools who will determine class placement? Most schools have 4 or so teachers so why couldn’t there be a class just of 5’s, a class just of 1’s and a mix of the others based on individual school numbers? Is the county really going to monitor which students are grouped together? They never have in the past.[/quote]

As often is the case, there were things in the slides that they tried to walk back a bit when questions were raised.  The sample groupings was one of them, where they readily said it could be more like 1/3/4 and 2/4/5 than the sets they had shown.

Schools with fewer classrooms per grade (or those with separated programs) yet highly heterogeneous skill levels are going to have a hard time of it without differential resourcing to account for that greater classroom management burden.[/quote]

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