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On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:34 +0000, martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The difficulty for most small schools (especially primary schools where > there is no streaming) is that most teachers need to write a number of > schemes of work for each topic they teach due to the wide range of > abilities in the class (ie. Gifted & Talented, "normal", "divs" and SEN) I used to train teachers (a long time ago). The best teachers always did this and today it is called "differentiation" (by task). I remember one visit where I went to see the head of science (a huge secondary modern in Manchester) about some curriculum development we were doing in the North West (which was a team of teachers with expert support) and at the time we were due to go into class (so I could be with them to see how his approach worked) he said "wait a while". I was immediately anxious and he reassured me the class would start working without him. Between 5 and 10 minutes later we went in - all were working. They had got out the next worksheet (individualised), set up the apparatus or were doing a self-test and recording the result. Alas in the last 3 decades, teachers' professionalism has been undermined by centralisation. Some freedom is being given back these days, thankfully. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html