Comments on: Education in China – Inefficient Class Structure http://www.thechinaexpat.com/education-in-china-inefficient-class-structure/ Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Lloyd Lofthouse http://www.thechinaexpat.com/education-in-china-inefficient-class-structure/comment-page-1/#comment-107802 Lloyd Lofthouse Thu, 26 May 2011 04:41:46 +0000 http://www.thechinaexpat.com/education-in-china-inefficient-class-structure/#comment-107802 "it causes subjects such as English to turn into fruitless attempts at teaching to all levels of students within one class, an impossibility for any class, but especially a language class where basic knowledge is absolutely essential as a building block for later knowledge." This is what we've been doing in the US since the schools were forced to do away with tracking kids by literacy level. Now, we also have all levels of students readers in each English class. When I was still teaching, I had kids reading at 2nd grade level and also at college level in the same room using a textbook that was both above and below most of the readers. “it causes subjects such as English to turn into fruitless attempts at teaching to all levels of students within one class, an impossibility for any class, but especially a language class where basic knowledge is absolutely essential as a building block for later knowledge.”

This is what we’ve been doing in the US since the schools were forced to do away with tracking kids by literacy level.

Now, we also have all levels of students readers in each English class. When I was still teaching, I had kids reading at 2nd grade level and also at college level in the same room using a textbook that was both above and below most of the readers.
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]]> By: jesse http://www.thechinaexpat.com/education-in-china-inefficient-class-structure/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 jesse Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:17:48 +0000 http://www.thechinaexpat.com/education-in-china-inefficient-class-structure/#comment-2327 so true. good suggestions. so true. good suggestions.

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