Blog #4

Hallmark # 3: Flexible grouping

Scenario that doesn't adhere: Teacher puts students into groups for projects according to seating...

Scenario that does adhere: Teacher putting students into groups according to needs, readiness, mixed-readiness, students with same or similar learning styles... ect... Every group could be different according to the subject matter that you are putting them into groups for.

Hallmark #6: Individual growth is emphasized as central to classroom success.

Scenario that doesn't adhere: Miss B. gives everyone spelling words for the weekly spelling test. She expects everyone to do the same spelling words and get majority of the words correct on the day of the test.

Scenario that does adhere: Miss B. gives words their way spelling test to see what groups she can put students in and what words they will need to help them improve.

After putting students into groups she assigns specific words each week for the groups to work on. She also gives them time to study as the group and then sends the words home with each individual student to study for the weekly spelling test.

On the day of the test the students are given the tests with the words they were given, there may be three or four different tests, but Miss B. is willing to correct and give all of the tests so that there is individual growth therefore making the classroom as a whole succeed in spelling.

Students will be re-tested with words their way to see if the groups have changed or if they have gotten different/important concepts of spelling down.

B-3- Strategy from pages 78-87: I would like to learn more about the strategy of Helping students realize success is the result of effort. I think that it's very important for students to realize that they aren't failing if they don't get 100% all of the time. That as long as they make the effort to try that they will succeed. They shouldn't compare themselves to their peers in success because everyone is at different levels of learning and I just think that it's very important to try to have students understand that their effort will lead them to their success. Everyone's level of success is different and students need to understand that. We live in a world where we think in order to succeed we have to get everything correct the first time with 100%. We learn that in our homes and even at school with most teachers. Students need to understand that as long as they make an effort to succeed that they will/are succeeding at their own level.