Some schools put the most advanced students in separate classes from their peers so they can study more challenging materials.
Do the advantages of this practice outweigh the disadvantages?
In my country, it is quite common to separate the best students from others so they can learn more advanced subject matter. While this practice can benefit top students by ensuring they receive a sufficient challenge, I would argue against separating students this way because doing so is unnecessary, and it prevents an excellent opportunity for socialization.
Levelling students in school seems like a very natural thing to do. In many areas such as sports, music, or language study, it often makes sense to separate people by skill level. A beginning English student wouldn’t get very much out of an advanced English grammar course, for example. In these cases, allowing individuals of a similar level to practice and study together ensures an appropriate challenge for everyone. Of course, in basic academic areas such as math and writing, student skill levels will also vary widely. The benefit of separating students according to skill is that highly proficient students can progress at a faster pace, while lower-level students can have more time to develop.
But I would argue that this separation comes at a great cost. Kids need to learn how to work with others who have different skills, interests, and aptitudes. This is a basic part of proper socialization, which ought to be a main focus of schools. Separating students limits these socialization opportunities significantly. While it is true that students should be provided with material that is appropriate for their level, I would argue it is not necessary to divide students into different classes to accomplish this. These days, skilled teachers should learn how to assess different student levels in math or reading, and provide appropriate instruction and practice for students across the skill spectrum. This can happen when teachers devote most of class time to applied practice, where students can work on exercises alone or collaboratively and teachers provide feedback.
Therefore, even though there is educational value to separating students by ability, I believe a skilled teacher can create appropriately challenging learning experiences for students across a wide spectrum of skill levels. Schools should avoid separating students in order to create a valuable opportunity for socialization.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 225, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...oper socialization, which ought to be a main focus of schools. Separating students limits ...
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Line 5, column 748, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the class') or simply say ''most class''.
Suggestion: most of the class; most class
...m. This can happen when teachers devote most of class time to applied practice, where student...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, therefore, while, for example, of course, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1936.0 1615.20841683 120% => OK
No of words: 357.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42296918768 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97041885578 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560224089636 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.44537683 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.882352941 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.70588235294 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292617914283 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0988160748844 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653239805692 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196558255965 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0693070945562 0.056905535591 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.