"Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route"
Jeannie Oakes
Jeannie Oakes
Oakes believes that students should not be grouped based on their abilities. Grouping students together with the same abilities is not an effective way because those students will excel while the other students who don't have the same abilities are at the bottom and not doing well. Students should be mixed with different abilities so they can work together and help each other.
1)"Moreover, the nature of these differences suggests that students who are placed in high-ability groups have access to far richer schooling experiences than other students."
This is a very important quote because students who are at the top of the education scale are doing much better in school and getting all the opportunities they want. On the other hand the students who are on the bottom of the todem pole are not getting what they need and that is help for them to succeed. When i was in school I got help and I was at the bottom of the todem pole, but I also had a learning disablity problem. So it kind of helped me out, but those kids who don't need to be heard that they need the teachers help.
2)“Students who need more time to learn appear to get less: those who have the most difficulty learning seem to have fewer of the best teachers.”
Students who are not at the top in education and are at a slower learning stage get the worst teachers in the school compared to students who get the best teachers. Whenever there is a group project the teacher will always work with the students who are at the (top tier) because they want to see them succeed at what they are doing. Students who are at the bottom should be able to get the same type of education with a teacher who is good compared to someone who is not. They should not be favored because of their education level.
3)"In low-ability classes, for example, teachers seem to be less encouraging ... while students in higher-ability classes seem to be much more involved in their classwork."
Teachers who teach low abliity classes tend not to be as interested in their work as other teachers who are taeching higher ability students who are engaged and ready to learn. Students won't learn well if there teacher is not encourging them to do well or to get them interested in the course. I believe that it matters how the teacher teaches the class if the student will like it or not, but teacher who teach low-ability students need to get them just as engaged and encouraged as they would do to the higher-ability students.
Conclusion:
After reading this article I look back at all the years I have been in school and I see how teachers acted. Most of my teachers got everyone invovled and mixed up the groups so everyone can be with each other, it didn't matter if you were a low-ability student or a high-ability student. Students should be able to work everyone just not who they are being "grouped" with but as everyone in their class because some day in real life they will be working together. Teachers also have a big part in the way students do their work in the classroom. Teachers need to be just as excited about what they are teaching and energetic to low-ability students as they do to high-ability students because low-ability students don't want to be associated with the slow learning students but as a normal student who can learn the same way as everyone else.
1)"Moreover, the nature of these differences suggests that students who are placed in high-ability groups have access to far richer schooling experiences than other students."
This is a very important quote because students who are at the top of the education scale are doing much better in school and getting all the opportunities they want. On the other hand the students who are on the bottom of the todem pole are not getting what they need and that is help for them to succeed. When i was in school I got help and I was at the bottom of the todem pole, but I also had a learning disablity problem. So it kind of helped me out, but those kids who don't need to be heard that they need the teachers help.
2)“Students who need more time to learn appear to get less: those who have the most difficulty learning seem to have fewer of the best teachers.”
Students who are not at the top in education and are at a slower learning stage get the worst teachers in the school compared to students who get the best teachers. Whenever there is a group project the teacher will always work with the students who are at the (top tier) because they want to see them succeed at what they are doing. Students who are at the bottom should be able to get the same type of education with a teacher who is good compared to someone who is not. They should not be favored because of their education level.
3)"In low-ability classes, for example, teachers seem to be less encouraging ... while students in higher-ability classes seem to be much more involved in their classwork."
Teachers who teach low abliity classes tend not to be as interested in their work as other teachers who are taeching higher ability students who are engaged and ready to learn. Students won't learn well if there teacher is not encourging them to do well or to get them interested in the course. I believe that it matters how the teacher teaches the class if the student will like it or not, but teacher who teach low-ability students need to get them just as engaged and encouraged as they would do to the higher-ability students.
Conclusion:
After reading this article I look back at all the years I have been in school and I see how teachers acted. Most of my teachers got everyone invovled and mixed up the groups so everyone can be with each other, it didn't matter if you were a low-ability student or a high-ability student. Students should be able to work everyone just not who they are being "grouped" with but as everyone in their class because some day in real life they will be working together. Teachers also have a big part in the way students do their work in the classroom. Teachers need to be just as excited about what they are teaching and energetic to low-ability students as they do to high-ability students because low-ability students don't want to be associated with the slow learning students but as a normal student who can learn the same way as everyone else.
3 comments:
I agree with your viewpoints on "tracking". What other alternatives to "tracking" should be implemented?
You have a really strong conclusion. I agree that students need to work with all of their peers becuase in a career, they will not be seperated accrding to "ability." Do you think that there are jobs today that seperate people into designated abilities?
Do you think the mixing helped some groups of higher ability or lower ability while perhaps damaging others? Or do you think your teachers were so awesome that everyone learned at the same rate?
Great post :)
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