In most classrooms these days, it appears students are now classified as a number. You are either a 4, 3, 2, or 1.
The class I observed was broken down like this according to the teacher; no 1's, a few 2's, and mostly 3's.
No student in the class entered the 5th grade as a 4.
For those who do not know about the number system, a grade of A, B, C, D, and F has been replaced by 4, 3, 2, and 1.
The class I observed was not an inclusion class. No student in the class has an IEP.
There was one diagnosed 504.
As for gifted students, there is one who the teacher labeled as gifted, and stated that there were two others who were not far from being gifted as well.
When it comes to working with the gifted students, she stressed that it is important that these students are not given more work, rather the level of difficulty for assignments is higher.
The teacher told me that her one gifted student is one of her biggest challenges do to the fact that she has to constantly think of new ways to challenge the student. This student often gets bored and does not push herself.
One thing the teacher did to address this was to place her next to another student who was near her level as a way to have them challenge one another and keep each other engaged.
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