I teach 5 classes. In each class I have every grade and skill levels.
I have a choice to teach up to the younger students who are the least experienced or down to the older students who have the most experience.
Since I want to do neither I prepare a set of lessons in lessons. What I mean by this is that I may teach a section on vertical welding and show all the students. Younger students will take 2-3 days to master even the most simple concepts of this welding while the older students are frustrated at the assignment.
So what I do is teach levels of the same welding. Its all vertical up but the mastery levels are different.
This allows me to keep all the students busy and engaged on the same process but at a different operational levels.
I like that concept, Mike. I have chose to have them work together on certain rubrics. I will combine underclassmen with the advanced. It seemed to work fairly well. The advanced felt like supervisors over the others. It also keep them in check if they knew thier stuff.
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