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School A 6.11.81
Ml
SS2
Tutor
We were talking in the meeting ..... and
the Head of Department seemed to stress
that they were one of the first schools
in London
through -
do mixed ability maths right
she said and I quoted her in that
paper - that they started work cards in
*71 - started on their own individualised
scheme before SMILE.
One of the things they said they couldn’t
go back to an ordinary scheme after 3 years
in mixed ability.
I wonder
the Head
if it would be worthwhile asking
of Maths
in next
- now that
you’ve done all the slogging to see if they
feel justified in being the only subject
in the school that keeps mixed ability
right through. Then we could involve our
own views on mixed ability to compare them
with the maths view. Would that be a useful
session?
School A 16.10.81 P2∕3 cii
Res
Tutor
..... Are you getting a bit clearer about
the way in which the work you’re doing now
relates
to the Report - the document places
a lot of stress on this and we see the Report
as part and parcel of what you do from the
beginning - and now you’ve got your diaries
so you’re actually starting.
It’s useful because if you write it up in
the evening you remember things that
have
happened that you'd have forgotten in four
weeks time
SS2
I find once I’ve written it in the diary
there’s
an emotional input and I would
find
it quite hard now to write it again in
another
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