I think one of the most challenging roles a teacher plays would have to be preparing lessons that apply to each child's needs. In my class that I observe there is a girl who only speaks Spanish and the teacher sometimes struggles to prepare a lesson that meets her needs and the kids who are more advanced. Just this week the teacher was trying to separate the kids into reading groups and was having a hard time because they all are on different reading levels.
One thing that the teachers at the school I observe at have done to help with this problem is break the children into groups for math. They teach a concept and break them into three different groups. Reinforce, reteach, and advanced. Reinforce would be the kids who are on track and just need a reminder of the lesson. Reteach are the kids who aren't quite getting it and need to be helped more. The advanced kids are the ones who have it and know how to apply it, the teacher has these kids start on more advanced problems. Overall I feel like this is working fairly well and think it helps with the problem of diverse students.
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