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  Case: Student Remediation
Ms. Phillips currently teaches a remediation class to 8 students. The class is designed to help remediate students who struggle in science based on either their CRCT scores or their grade averages from the previous year. However, all of the students in the remediation class currently have an A or B in their current science class. Ms. Phillips seems to find that if she presents information at a lower level students seem to get bored and lose interest, and if she presents it at a higher level the students get frustrated. What are some good strategies or practices that Ms. Phillips could use as part of her science remediation class that will keep the students motivated and ensure success on future testing?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
Possibly at the beginning of the classes she can give a pretest (not graded) and have a variety of questions at all levels of learning. Then having a comment space at the bottom, having students write what they feel like they need more help on, what they have interests in learning more about, etc. That way she has a range of things that can be taught more in this class, and the students will feel like they are being heard.