Streaming

• Streaming


  1. Separating children into different ability groups of classes

  2. Teaching each ability group separately from the other for all subjects
• Teachers do not usually see work in class children as Ideal pup


  They tend to see them as lacking ability and have low expectations for them
• Children tend to be placed in the lowest streams


  As teachers have low expectations for them
• Once people are streamed, it's usually difficult to move up to a highest stream
• Children are locked into their teachers' low expectations of them

  This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the children live up to the teachers' expectations by underachieving
• Douglas found that children placed in lowest streams at aged eight had suffered declined in their IQ school by age 11