As educators return to school, we are hearing the phrase “learning gap” a lot. I mean, A LOT. Administrators are understandably worried about the lower-than-average results on the different state assessments. School boards are being pressured by upset parents and government officials to “get the scores up.” And caught in the middle are the teachers who must make sense of how to help students grow academically this year more than ever before.
Many different approaches are being tried, and lots of education-ese buzz words are being thrown around. In talking with teachers these past few weeks, three words keep rising to the top of the list: acceleration, remediation, and intervention. Let’s take a look at these three and see what each means and when is the best time to use it.
Tags: acceleration • Educational Research • Good Teaching • Intervention • learning gap • remediation • Research