The Better Elementary School: Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids

Responsible elementary schools aim to ensure students know more today than yesterday, but face challenges due to pupil diversity and rigid graded formats. A new approach called "lumping" assigns 25-30 children to classrooms and a teacher's curriculum based on age, ignoring skills and leading to curriculum mismatches. The book offers an alternative that allows all youngsters to advance through the curriculum as far and as fast as their acquired skills allow, providing essential everyday skills.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Responsible elementary schools are committed to ensuring that all pupils acquire more knowledge today than they did yesterday, thereby preparing them better for tomorrow's lessons. However, achieving this goal faces significant challenges due to the wide range of academic levels among students in any given classroom. The current educational system's rigid graded format, with first, second, and other grade levels, is unable to accommodate this diversity. As a result, schools often assign 25-30 children to classrooms and teachers' curricula based solely on age, without considering individual skills. This approach, known as "lumping," can lead to significant educational weaknesses, as superior teachers are forced to ignore many youngsters' strengths and weaknesses due to time constraints. The book provides teachers and principals with an effective alternative to the outdated "one-size-fits-all" approach that fails to address the needs of both advanced and struggling pupils, leaving many school children without essential everyday skills. The promising option offers all youngsters, regardless of their academic level, the opportunity to advance through the curriculum as far and as fast as their acquired skills allow.

Weight: 531g
Dimension: 227 x 160 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475866452