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'Ability' grouping
By Debbie
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Hi all,
I too am strongly against ability grouping...it's tracking, a predestined place based on an initial set of scores, which don't change after we've kept them in these groups because the expectations are set. The| needy kids don't have the role models, the strongest kids don't have someone to explain their thinking to...so everyone is set up to 'fit' nicely on the good ol' bell curve...well, in a technological society, we need J curve learning. Everyone should be scaffolded to achieve to their full potential which can't happen when the teacher is the giver of information and everyone does the same | |
thing at the same time. If you go to the ASCD web site, I bet there would be references there or at least a starting place for a research base. Check out the work of Larry Lezotte for one, as well as the Differentiated Learning stuff. Best of luck, and let us know how it goes! ;-D
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