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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious what posters think should happen instead? So the teachers goes over directions and asks if students have questions about the assignment. Should she allow students to interrupt her small group whenever they want? If you could seen what that looks like, I bet you would think differently. [/quote]

The child should raise hand, ask the question and the teacher should answer it. I don’t understand the difficulty or how this presents a burden?  I have volunteered in my kids’ classes and the teachers do just that.  [/quote]

The situation is, the teacher is sitting at a side table working with a small group of 5 or so. The rest of the students are working independently at desks. If the teacher is focusing on the hands raised at the desks she cannot work with the small group at the side table at the same time.

This just seems like another example of people assuming they know how teaching works, because they were once in school and have been in classrooms now and then.[/quote]

Ok, first not all schools do this.  I know public schools have adapted this style in recent years, but thread illustrates why it isn’t a successful model. Not only is it NOT successful, it’s a disaster. I have A LOT of sympathy for public school teachers.  I know you guys are doing the best you can with a crappy model. [/quote]

I’ve never heard or worked in an elementary school that doesn’t have any small group time in grades K-2. I even had small group time in ES back in the 80s. Our groups were named after birds in first grade- blue birds, cardinals, orioles, eagles.  [/quote]

I agree most schools have small group time, but it's not most of the day. My kids have been in both public & private elementary and I find they do things very different. The private system seemed more effective and the teachers were less stressed. Lessons are taught to the entire class.  For example, a grammar lesson on nouns v. verbs.  Or, a lesson on parts of a story or writing paragraphs.  Kids might raise hand to ask a question, and the teacher may ask the student to hold on to the question until she's done OR she may answer it on the spot. No one is saying, ask 3 before me. Children sit at their desks and work on a writing assignment.  Teachers walks around and helps the children as needed.  Kids always ask "how do you spell xyz??"   Teacher asks students to look it up in their books, or the kids try to sound it out and the teacher corrects the spelling later.

For group work (which is just a small portion of day) -- students are assigned to reading groups based on ability. Strong readers are grouped together, struggling readers are grouped together.  The ASSISTANT TEACHER (a huge advantage, i know) works with struggling readers on phonics while main teacher works with other children.  Or, the assistant works with strong readers, while main teachers works with everyone else.  I like this model because students get what they need. 
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So basically kids get what they need if they go to a private school that has admissions and that charges tuition and has smaller classes with assistant teachers to help. Got it.[/quote]

100% true.

We are a family with means. We live in an areal of Northern Virginia without any decent private schools. I wish that were not the case. I'd love for my kids to get an excellent t private education. [/quote]

This is absolutely not true!  Private MAY be better but as a general rule this is not true. Private’s offer great supplements to core classes, as a general rule though (foreign language, better field trips, smaller classes, better teacher/student ratio, more hands on science, etc).

-personally seen same kids go from private to public and vice verse and this was not true for them. Also, a former teacher and we saw many kids come from private to public who struggled

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