Positive Aspects being Discussed:
- small class sizes = more individual attention
- Students will meet on a regular basis - 2 or 3 days a week
- not a time will be devoted to "catch up" on regular language arts/math homework
- class will be mixture of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students
- class work will supplement regular language arts/math classes, but will be done in class
- teacher will have access to literacy and math coach
- will meet for the rest of the year
- no "grade" will be given
- Full time certified teacher!
Some concerns
- students will be pulled from an existing class- but hopefully not study hall. Unfortunately that leaves either a related arts or PE class...this will upset both teachers and some students.
- we don't want students to think they are being punished or labeled
- there is a push to use a computer program for instruction - especially in Math
I am sure these are similar problems for other schools. Luckily there is a lot of discussion and everyone is open to other possibilities. We haven't been able to offer this type of extra support lately, so we want to make the best of it!
Any Advice?
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