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Mrs Frizzle
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Standardised testing in that form can be used to guide the curriculum. But I still think they are a snapshot.
What happens if the child blitz's the year level assessment? Do you they do the next year up and level them that way?
No, the school curriculum is very wide. So they'd be either given fewer concepts and taught more repetitively, or given more concepts and more deeply, but still in the same classes. The school uses a basically "branching off" kind of curriculum. The better you do the more branches you are allowed to explore. My kids call them, "side quests."
Sounds good in theory. Do they have another teacher who oversees that? I am just thinking of how difficult it is to cater for different levels within the classroom as it is, without trying to teach extra curriculum on top of it.