If you cannot differentiate instruction, you shouldn't be a teacher

I hope that is clear enough. Because it is something that has to be said. If you cannot make your lesson approachable by every student in your class, well, you really have no place in a class. Because there is one place where there is no room for pure democratic principle: information dispersal. That is, you cannot distribute information in such a way that it is packaged for the majority.

This is not just an issue of ethics--it's a logical impossibility. Why? Constructivism. Constructivism says that students develop interpretive schemas based on experience. Which means that, unless two students have the exact same experiences (both internal and external, chemical and physical, and all of those realms of human experience which we fail to quantify), they will not have the same schema.

What passes for 'mainstream' education is an education that is accessible to the largest portion of the bell curve. There is a difference between accessibility and mastery, and I would submit that our settling for accessibility has a lot to do with the deterioration of the bell curve in general.

We've got to do better as teachers. We have to stop saying that to ask teachers to ensure make education accessible to more than the majority is 'idealist; asking too much; living a dream.' If we don't start expecting teachers to teach, and holding them accountable to that, what makes think that they will?

P.S. I know I haven't posted my story yet. I haven't finished revising it. I was waiting on a friend's expert opinion, but she hasn't e-mailed me yet.