Adam Pawson
October 18 2017
Dr. Bennett
RELA 8-5
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Ability Grouping
In the 1980s, Ability Sorting in school systems was depicted very badly, but what is it really? I hope to give Ability Sorting a rejoinder into teaching methods, and show it in a new light. School classes have many special students, but not every student is where the class may be. It’s a well-known problem of the faster-paced kids are bored, and possibly failing due to lack of stimulation, and some kids are struggling to understand the course being taught. So what can be done about this? Schools have classes for different learning speeds, but is the two or three they offer quite enough of a split?
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Everyone there was at the same level, and we all knew the same information about programming, which at the beginning of the term, was almost none. The class was an hour long then the usual school day at 9 hours, but the entire 9 hours (not counting lunch or breaks) was spent drilling HTML subjects. But what made the class so effective, was that everyone had the same method of thinking, and we were all quick problem solvers. This made me feel like how school classes should