Are you focusing on your students’ growth or are you emphasizing other factors that we educators sometimes tend to focus on?
Ask yourself the following:
- When one student doesn’t pass the assessment, is he remediated? (as opposed to being move on and never mastering that skill?)
- When a student can’t do the skill your class is currently working on because she hasn’t mastered a skill she was supposed to learn in earlier years, is she given the support to master that skill and progress to the grade level work?
- When a student takes longer than the rest of the class to learn something, is he given extra time in class to get that extra practice without missing important information that the class is learning?
- If a student doesn’t get through the entire curriculum, or as much as her peers, but she has made progress, does her grade reflect her success?
- Do you celebrate a student when they are successful in learning a skill?
- Are students given the opportunity to try to learn the material again, if they didn’t learn it the first time?
- If a student has mastered the material, but the majority of the class has not, can she accelerate and move on to more challenging tasks while the rest of the class remediates?
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If you answered yes to all of the questions above, great job! I think that you’re doing a great job focusing on student growth.
If you cannot answer yes to all of the questions above, I would challenge you to consider how you can focus on student growth in your classroom.
To help you focus on student growth, I would recommend developing Learning Stations in your classroom that give students the opportunity to learn one skill, and practice it as much as they need, until they master it. You can put your students into these skills based learning stations for remediation or acceleration. So no one is left behind, and no one is held back. Everyone is growing.
We have several articles that can help you create these learning stations, as well as a book that’s set to release on August 10th,2018 that will walk you through the entire process of creating and implementing learning stations to reach every student in your classroom.
What to read next:
- What is a Learning Station
- Why You Should Create Learning Stations
- Remediation that Works – Plugging the Holes
- Differentiation via Remediation Stations
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