This question comes frequently from special education classrooms who are teaching the Open Court Reading Program… I have a classroom of fifth graders reading at a first grade level. Can’t I just teach my fifth graders the first grade curriculum? While fifth grade students may not be able to read, they can certainly comprehend, are …
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Gifted Education and Equity
Elona, a Canadian middle school special education teacher and author of Teachers At Risk, writes today about the inequity of excluding special education students from activities designated for gifted students.I’d like to think these things happen only in Canada but they don’t. I’ve written before about how technology tools like movie making are often saved …