Well, Andreas, certainly for the students coming with Abitur to the VET school this is an advantage. The other students, often students who do have learning difficulties or are coming out of underprivileged families this is a double inequality. Often those students didn't get the support they need beforehead and suddenly their problems in lessons are growing because the level of taught content is adjusted to the learning abilities of the students with Abitur. So the underpriviledged students get lower marks and have more difficulties in finding a jiob with theses marks as their more privileged classmates. (Who, by the way are bored in lessons because they are unchallenged)
The indicators for performance, the methods of ajdusting content to the appropriate learning level are not yet developed, or re-discovered -. This problem is well known from small schools, the so called: "One-Class school" and thus confronting us with a well known method: Internal differentiation, wiht all the strenghts and weaknesses that this methodes includes.
What do you think - is this helping in regard to equal treatment, equal opportunities?
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The indicators for performance, the methods of ajdusting content to the appropriate learning level are not yet developed, or re-discovered -. This problem is well known from small schools, the so called: "One-Class school" and thus confronting us with a well known method: Internal differentiation, wiht all the strenghts and weaknesses that this methodes includes.
What do you think - is this helping in regard to equal treatment, equal opportunities?