Which system do you want for your child? #5
Bob Sornson
Working with school districts and families to help every child become a lifelong learner at Early Learning Foundation
1. Require students who already have the skills and content to sit through the delivery of this one-size-fits-all instruction. Allow these students to get good grades with minimal effort. At the same time watch frustrated students, who do not have the foundation skills to successfully learn the content you are presenting, to disengage from learning and decide they are not "good" at this subject.
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2. A system in which you consistently adjust instruction to keep students in the instructional zone, allowing more advanced students to move on to higher levels of challenge as soon as they are ready while offering more instruction or practice time to any students who need more help reaching deep understanding of essential skills or knowledge.
As a point of reference, please read and share The Journey to Mastery, by Bob Sornson, in the Sept/Oct Principal Magazine. https://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/Sornson_SO16.pdf