DI Chapter 11

This chapter is really all about modifying curriculum to each student. I liked several of the ideas such as compacted curriculum, however I wonder if it is fair to do so. The book mentions giving students different spelling words if they are on a lower level which is awesome for differentiation for the student but doesn't that draw attention to them in a negative way? I just feel like there is a way to implement these ideas without making the student feel different or bad about themselves. The reasont that I say that they might feel badly is because I am thinking about my fifth grade team. The LA teacher gives each other teacher a list of words for the students (as their spelling words) every Friday. The teachers post the words on the board. If they were to create a separate list of words for other students it would draw alot of attention to the student. I did like what the book was saying about basically individualizing the curriculum according to each student. My favorite was the learning contract between student and teacher. The only problem is that I think managing all of those contracts would be a nightmare for the teacher. It's an awesome idea though and if the teacher could find an easy way to implement it, the contracts would be vrey beneficial to students.