Description
Book SynopsisResponsible elementary schools strive to ensure that all pupils know more today than they knew yesterday thereby better preparing the youngsters for tomorrow's lessons. However essential that aim, achieving the goal faces serious challenges due to what confronts quality classroom teachers daily: It's not the budget crisis or standardized testingIt's the enormous variation in the academic level of students coming into any given classroom Our current educational system's rigid graded format, i.e., first grade, second grade, is unable to accommodate this extraordinary pupil diversity. By habit rather than wise thinking, schools assign 25-30 children to classrooms and a teacher's curriculum on the basis of age with no consideration for skills, a flawed approach called lumping. Doing so, even superior teachers are forced by time constraints to ignore many youngsters' educational strengths and weaknesses thereby increasing the likelihood those schoolkids will suffer discordant curriculum
Table of Contents
Opening Thoughts
Chapter One: Schools and Basic Issues
Chapter Two: The Underserved
Chapter Three: Celebrating the Individual Child
Chapter Four:Age, Grade Level, and Peers
Chapter Five: The Consequences of Lumping
Diagnostics, Strategies, and Formats
Chapter Six: Tailoring Instruction: Getting Started
Chapter Seven: Authentic Performance-Based Assessment
Chapter Eight: Error Analysis
Chapter Nine:Formative Assessment
Chapter Ten: Tailored Education of All School Kids
Chapter Eleven: Format: Graded
Chapter Twelve: Format: Ungraded
Closing Thoughts
