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The teachers at my grade level work together to work with each child at their level. At the beginning of each unit we make a pretest based on the concepts we want the children to know at the end of the unit. We also make
a spreedsheet with the concepts at the top and the students names down the side to use for grades. We have all of the students take the pretest and then group them according to the concepts they need to know. My math class has second graders from all of the classes - they need to learn the same concepts. We swtich classes for math and the children go to whatever math teacher they have.

As teachers we then move the children through the concepts that they need to know, and may also work with small groups within our group. There is always that group that knows most of what we want them to know already - so we move them on to higher level concepts, or focus on word problems with the concept or with addition we moved the "high" group on to multiplication. For the group who scored the lowest on the pretest, they get to be in a class where they are not intimidated by all of the other kids who know all of the answers. We keep our groups flexible and move children to different teachers based on the concepts they need to know. We give the same test at the end to assess their learning of the concepts. We retest for each concept and make sure that different teachers take different groups. We also make sure that we do math with our own classes so that the students have the benefit of hearing the thinking skills and have the good model of the great math students.