Posts by dancer42

teaching to the group slows down everybody not just the bright ones.

Sorry Dancer you are quite wrong.

I think I've seen you post about tracks in the UK schools. There are no tracks in USA schools. The morons sit in the same class as the gifted. The class is taught with the aim of getting the most passing scores on the standardized test. Better the pass rate the more $ for the school.

Teachers are necessary, tell me why we need an over bloated civil service - Aren't they a drain on taxpayers as well as benefit scroungers?

Because most of the time different parts of the civil service are giving out contradictory orders. Which then takes many meetings probably chaired by another department to get order restored.

Example.
When I was in Shetland, after many orders to cut costs we were having meetings once a month in London about the supply of reliable power to our station and other parties who also used the hilltop. These meetings started at 09:30 and finished about 15:30 usually on Thursdays.

When they started we worked most of Wednesday, then got a late afternoon flight to Aberdeen and the last shuttle to London. Stayed overnight in the Chevrons club, attended the meeting, went out to Heathrow caught the return shuttle and the last flight into Shetland. And worked Friday



Then the transport people said the plane journeys are too expensive, you must use the ferries and trains. First the ferry leaves Tuesday, and second because it is overnight they forgot you had to add on the costs of meals and cabins. So no work Wednesday, instead travel all day on train, with added cost of lunch etc.

Thursday attend meeting, but have to then waste several hours before catching the sleeper, added cost, train to Aberdeen. Couldn't use the Friday daytime train, it arrived too late to catch the ferry back to Shetland. Friday wasted all day from about 09:00 until 15:00 when you could go on board ferry. Again added costs of meals and cabin.

Result was we lost 2 days work per month, and the overall cost of the journey was greater. But of course the transport department didn't see that because they didn't pay accomadation and meal costs.

In the end the U.S. MUST maintain good relations with Argentina. There is too much coffee at stake!! The british might opt for tea instead, but that is simply not an option here.

IN OKLAHOMA there is federal income tax, state income tax. and county sales tax

as well as county property tax to support schools.

the city's also collect some of the sales tax.

standard deduction for Single person is 6,100 dollars

the poverty the federal guideline for Oklahoma is 11,450

so if you are poor in Oklahoma the state and the fed will tax half your income

as well as the county and city taxing all of it.

The state may, but the fed will give you welfare called the Earned Income Tax Credit.

teaching to the group slows down everybody not just the bright ones.

Sorry Dancer you are quite wrong.

Firstly, a trained teacher will deal with the differentiation by planning in advance of the lesson. They will often pair the brightest pupils with the ones that are struggling. The clever ones will feel valued in the teacher allowing them to help their classmates, and the struggling ones can often learn better by a peer showing them, rather than a formal instruction by the teacher.

Secondly, all teachers will have prepared extra work before hand, and often at a higher level than the average of the class. So the brightest can be stretched when they complete the easier tasks.

Computer aided learning, or self tuition sometimes has it's place, but usually in FE. For example, when I took the ECDL the College I was at had self learning, you worked your way through the course work at your own pace asking for help when necessary. It works with adults, probably not with 10 year olds. Go and talk to a fully trained teacher and ask them how they deal with a class of different abilities.

Hi dancer, I have corrected a couple of typos for you.

"by rote learning" and "have infinite patience"

Computers in the classroom are simply audio visual teaching aids. It is far more effective to employ group learning and pairing with the buddy system, to deal with differentiation. At least that is what the teacher training course PGCE advocates.