Differentiation and its Problems: the views of primary teachers and curriculum support staff in Northern Ireland
Titel:
Differentiation and its Problems: the views of primary teachers and curriculum support staff in Northern Ireland
Auteur:
McGarvey, Brian Morgan, Valerie Marriott, Stuart Abbott, Lesley
Verschenen in:
Educational studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 22 (1996) nr. 1 pagina's 69-82
Jaar:
1996-03
Inhoud:
This paper identifies a range of problems associated with putting differentiation into practice. The opinions of head teachers, subject co-ordinators, and teachers were sought, as well as those of the curriculum support staff in the Education and Library Boards on the extent to which these problems affected primary schools in Northern Ireland, and case-studies illuminated these views. The results showed that the curriculum support staff regarded most problems in differentiation in a more serious light than the schools themselves did, but there was agreement on the acute lack of time to deliver a differentiated curriculum, on the shortage of human resources and on the difficulties with new assessment methods.