Re:New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children
by dragonwriter on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:50PM
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> Teaching everyone with high expectations is a great idea. In practice, though, it means that some people flunk.
No, it doesn't, any more than any other expectations do. (The expectations that are being discussed are the assumptions of ability that set content and instructional approaches. How you respond to differing acheivement is a nearly orthogonal question, and that's the domain that flunking is in.)
> Many school systems find that flunking folks requires a disproportionate amount of effort.
Which is why they don't flunk students, even when they fail to succeed with the low expectations that underlie their instructional approach.
No, it doesn't, any more than any other expectations do. (The expectations that are being discussed are the assumptions of ability that set content and instructional approaches. How you respond to differing acheivement is a nearly orthogonal question, and that's the domain that flunking is in.)
> Many school systems find that flunking folks requires a disproportionate amount of effort.
Which is why they don't flunk students, even when they fail to succeed with the low expectations that underlie their instructional approach.