The same way surgeons practice a single stitch thousands of times, teachers need to practice moving students
from whole class instruction to small groups over and over again.
Not exact matches
Instead, secondary schools need to develop a continuum of literacy
instruction to combat the debilitating fragmentation of block schedules; that is, teachers of content
classes from every subject need to use similar classroom approaches so that struggling students can utilize strategies learned in supplementary
classes throughout the
whole school day.
Freed
from whole -
class instruction by the technology, Short has time to reteach concepts to individual students or small groups.
Assessment literate teachers use the information that they gain
from formative assessment to make adjustments to their
instruction, both for the
whole class and individual students.
Teachers reported that the introduction of multiage
classes coincided with a shift
from traditional basal reading
instruction to the
whole language approach in early reading.
Among 12 questions considered are the following: (1) Aren't some of the principles of middle level education, cooperative learning and
whole class instruction in reading harmful
from the standpoint of providing appropriate programs to gifted students?
The students receive
whole class, small group, and one - on - one
instruction, as well as additional support
from technological learning platforms that individualize and monitor student progress.
With these strategies, students receive
whole group
instruction from teachers and then are flexibly grouped to participate in a three - station rotation for the remainder of the
class.
However, few of the studies in those meta - analyses focused on reading, they weren't always comparing small group teaching to
whole class instruction, and some of the reading studies were
from back in the day when 45 - 60 kids in a
class was common practice.