Tracking

Tracking is segregating students into different classrooms based upon their academic ability (Houghton, V) At first glance this may seem like a good idea and beneficial to the education of all students. Why not put students where they can be challenged at a pace they can handle while allowing gifted students to take the ball and run? After all, doesn’t the law of the land say that everyone deserves a free education. If gifted students are not being challenged, are they really being educated…

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Comparison of U.S. and European Tracking Chmielewski states that the “most visible difference between the two types of tracking are organizational and institutional” (2014, p. 295). Course-by-course tracking, the U.S. way, “always occurs within schools” while the European tracking “occurs in physically separate buildings” (Chmielewski, 2014, p. 295). In addition, the course-by-course system ideally readies all students for university, while the academic/vocational tracking determines who goes to…

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For my Lit Circle Book, I read Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam. This book is connected to a real-world story by one of the authors, Yusef Salaam, about his life and how he was put in a similar situation as Amal when he was a teen. In Punching the Air, the figurative language is very powerful. The authors use metaphors, similies, personification, and more to help readers understand Amal's experience and feelings. It is also important that Amal shows us, from his perspective, how he…

Tracking I include tracking as a component that serves to promote hierarchies within schools, for the simple reason that tracking creates groups based on ranking of “intelligence,” but most importantly, its generated by teachers and schools. Jeannie Oakes, identifies tracking as a process in which students are divided into categories based on performance. Teachers observe students and then assign them to specific classes, for example honors courses or the class for “the bad kids.” Tracking can…

today, tracking and invasion of privacy has become a norm. There are multiple reasons for tracking, but that doesn't excuse it. Tracking could be as harmless as just using your info for advertisement, or it could be used to take your identity. Some see tracking as an overall invasion of privacy and feel that there should be regulations for it; others view it as something that is just harmless and maybe even necessary for their own benefit. Regardless of it being harmless or not, tracking is an…

ultimately dropping out. This happens regardless of where each student went to high school, but can be avoid by curricular tracking, viewing the schools via their resources and structure, and instilling programing that helps students achieve their goals. According to the Handbook of Adolescence, curricular tracking is controversial, but is used in American Schools. Curricular tracking determines the quality…

Using tracking I can identify what methods of instruction best work for each student and personalize an education to each of these individual. Plenty of people take a stand against tracking as they believe that this method can victimize specific individuals who are falling behind or who do not understand. The targeting of tracking is not used in a poor way to cause the student stand-out or feel ridiculed, but rather…

What exactly does “tracking” and “ability grouping” accomplish in classroom settings? While some advocate for their use finding these programs increase student performance; others find the use ineffectual and promote inequality. Ability grouping typically refers to a single classroom of students of varying abilities who are then instructed according to their academic needs. This is used mostly in elementary levels. The student groups are set up by subject area and regrouped as student needs…