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>Hi everyone, our principal is thinking of changing our current practice
>of heterogeneous groupings of students to a homogeneous grouping. do
>any of you have experience with this?. Our school district currently
>has the 'academically challenged' students in homogeneous classes, but
>the rest are all heterogeneous.( All abilities in one class) We also
>practice inclusion and I'm not sure how this would fit into the picture
>yet. If you have any input, I would love to hear it. Also, if you know
>of any research on this subject, I'd appreciate that as well.
I teach at a school which has multi-age, multi-ability classrooms.
Overall, it works pretty good. I guess it's because thought is given
to which classroom would the student best succeed. As many of you
know, Gaenslen is a school with a 40% disability rate. It's a little
harder with mixed classrooms to tell who was held back, etc. Some
seem to benefit from having a teacher for the second time around. I
also like how the older students tend to help the younger students.
Sometimes, it's the opposite!
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