By LINDSAY CAREY STAFF WRITER Students and teachers gathered at Linden Street School for the annual summer celebration to show parents what the kids in the Plainville Schools Reading and Math Summer Program (RAMP) had accomplished this summer. The hallways were covered with art projects, which is one of the ways the school system was able to make lessons more fun and reinforce what they had learned. “It’s not a teacher standing in front in a whole classroom of kids listening,” said Program Coordinator Philip Sanders. “It’s watching a video. It’s breaking into small groups for discussion. We differentiate our instruction.” Sanders said that the reason the RAMP program is so successful is because the children are screened during the school year before they are invited to the program. “What we really try to do is get the third of the kids who need it most and try to hit on their areas of need,” said Sanders. “We figure out where the kids are and we teach them at that level, so that they can make the most gains.” The program coordinator said that the summer school teachers track the students and give that information to their incoming teacher, so [...]
By LINDSAY CAREY STAFF WRITER Students and teachers gathered at Linden Street School for the annual summer celebration to show parents what the kids in the Plainville Schools Reading and Math Summer Program (RAMP) had accomplished this summer. The hallways were covered with art projects, which is one of the ways the school system was able to make lessons more fun and reinforce what they had learned. “It’s not a teacher standing in front in a whole classroom of kids listening,” said Program Coordinator Philip Sanders. “It’s watching a video. It’s breaking into small groups for discussion. We differentiate our instruction.” Sanders said that the reason the RAMP program is so successful is because the children are screened during the school year before they are invited to the program. “What we really try to do is get the third of the kids who need it most and try to hit on their areas of need,” said Sanders. “We figure out where the kids are and we teach them at that level, so that they can make the most gains.” The program coordinator said that the summer school teachers track the students and give that information to their incoming teacher, so [...]