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The Better Elementary School
Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids
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2022
Summary
Responsible 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 testing…It’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 mismatches.” The book provides teachers and principals an effective alternative to the antiquated “one-size-fits-all” approach that ignores both advanced and struggling pupils, leaving many school children without essential everyday skills. The promising option offers all youngsters—low achievers, high achievers, and those in between—the opportunity to advance through the curriculum as far and as fast as their acquired skills allow.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6645-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6647-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
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Opening Thoughts No access
Schools and Basic Issues No access Pages 1 - 16
The Underserved No access Pages 17 - 36
Celebrating the Individual Child No access Pages 37 - 46
Age, Grade Level, and Peers No access Pages 47 - 58
The Consequences of Lumping No access Pages 59 - 64
Tailoring Instruction No access
Authentic Performance-Based Assessment No access
Error Analysis No access
Formative Assessment No access
Tailored Education for All Schoolkids No access
