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| Subject: The way OZschwitz schools cope with learning difficulties is doing more harm than good Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:34 pm | |
| We fail children who experience difficulty in school and with learning almost every day in Australia and in so many ways. These children can fall through a myriad of cracks: cracks that appear in some schools and not others, cracks that exist for different reasons whether they be capacity, belief or resource-related, and cracks that are exacerbated by industrial relations and education policy. Whatever their origin, these cracks need to be addressed.
Pushing children ever closer to the edge are well-intended practices that end up being a double-edged sword. Take, for example, "ability grouping". This can occur at school level (academically selective schooling), at year level (otherwise known as streaming) or classroom level (like graded reading groups). While the latter two are often employed to reduce or control the range of abilities within a class and thereby reduce pressure on individual classroom teachers, ability grouping is not always good for students.
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/younger-kids/kids-education/the-way-schools-cope-with-learning-difficulties-is-doing-more-harm-than-good-20150211-13bhin.html |
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