But that experience may seem far removed from life
in mixed ability classrooms tailored to the needs of the average or at - risk student.
Even
as mixed ability classrooms become the norm in many states, options for enriching gifted children's educational experience are emerging.
Her books include How to Differentiate Instruction
in Mixed Ability Classrooms, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of all Learners, and Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom: Strategies and Tools for Responsive Teaching.
Finally, if we really believe that
a mixed ability classroom is the best thing, then let's dissolve Maths A, B, C and Prevocational Maths and put them all in the one room with the one teacher to prepare them for life after school.
The action of differentiation in
a mixed ability classroom is designed to accommodate the wide range of abilities in classrooms mentioned in the Gonski report.
Students who are well advanced, and learn very quickly, stagnate and deteriorate in
mixed ability classrooms (google «John Hattie challenging all students».)
In
a mixed ability classroom, the teacher is just as likely to lower their standards for struggling students.
The assumptions that gifted students can just learn independently in
a mixed ability classroom are to a certain extent true, but they certainly do not thrive or grow as they should without differentiated curriculum and teaching.
Differentiation is considered one of the most effective strategies for supporting the learning of students with a variety of learning needs in
mixed ability classrooms.
Chancellor Carmen Fariña is on the record as saying that she believes children learn better in
mixed ability classrooms, and so has no interest in adding seats.
Within this course, the following methods for exceptional teaching and learning will be explored: inclusion, transition, co-teaching arrangements, and differentiating instruction in
mixed ability classrooms.
How to differentiate instruction in
mixed ability classrooms.
How to differentiate instruction in
a mixed ability classroom.
It introduces the concept of differentiation as an effective means of including all students in
mixed ability classrooms and draws on the theories of Blooms Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.