In the event that the issue of lack of instructional minutes is brought in the conversation please refer to this guiding chart Slide 12 Facilitator notes Instructional Possible comments that Groupings for may surface will be: Elementary Students Is this considered tracking or segregating students? Ask participants to The response would be respond to the NO the purpose again is to purpose of better address the instructional language needs of the groupings students having a wide range of language abilities in addition to a wide range of academic abilities within one group makes the concept of differentiation a serious challenge for the teacher to meet in addition this grouping is what we consider flexible grouping as opposed to fixed group because the intent is to move children along the continuum of proficiency.
In the event that the issue of lack of instructional minutes is brought in the conversation please refer to this guiding chart Slide 12 Instructional Groupings for Elementary Students Ask participants to respond to the purpose of instructional groupings Facilitator notes Possible comments that may surface will be: Is this considered tracking or segregating students? The response would be NO the purpose again is to better address the language needs of the students having a wide range of language abilities in addition to a wide range of academic abilities within one group makes the concept of differentiation a serious challenge for the teacher to meet in addition this grouping is what we consider flexible grouping as opposed to fixed group because the intent is to move children along the continuum of proficiency.