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How Do You Teach Several Students at Once?

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Statement of the Whole: This question, from a listener, has elements of several issues in it.  What do we do when we have multiple students learning in a given classroom with differing levels of performance and ability?  And what do we do, especially in home education, when we have differing ages and levels of maturity in the same context?  Jason and Steve consider all this and more on this episode from the Backporch. 

Estimating Your Student Rightly

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Poem:  Leaves Compared With Flowers, by Robert Frost 

Statement of the Whole: Expectations come from our estimate of what a student should be able to do.  How do we avoid either over or under estimating our students?  Jason and Steve respond to this question from a listener.  Join in the discussion of how low or high the bar should be set.