Question from Lori

Here is a question I got from Lori: Ben, I just found out that all teachers at  our school have a new requirement for next year: …all teachers must prove that the students improve or learn over the course of their class. What will be your year-end summative assessment to show student growth/learning? (example: pre […]

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Thoughts on the Year

I’m glad I made people pay for the PLC membership. It kept the group small. It kept the right people here. From 12,000 hits a day a year ago and a big, non-focused and argumentative community (people seemed to want to argue the merits of TPRS/CI more than learn it), we have become a group

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Multi-level Instruction

Jen said: …Isn’t every class a mixed level? Aren’t there really no such things as “levels” anyway?…. John said this: …this statement from Jen’s recent post I think deserves to be a post on its own, because it really touches on the the assumptions most teachers, parents and administrators hold. How many of us are

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