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Teachers: Don’t Feel Guilty About What You Can’t Do. The System Needs to Change.

Edsurge

Students collaborated, constructed their designs, collected data, wrote reports and gave presentations. What if I could differentiate instruction in more effective ways than providing extra worksheets to advanced students or offering after-school tutoring for those who struggled? How much more might my students have learned?

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.) ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. —

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3 Ways Districts Can Rethink Teacher Professional Development

eSpark

I sat through many sit-and-get lectures and inapplicable seminars and, while I hate to admit it, I often brought papers to grade because I felt that was a more valuable use of my time. We’ve known for decades that differentiating content for students based on their level of performance has a massive impact on academic outcomes.