looping

n. in the American education system, the practice of one teacher educating the same students through more than one school year, as opposed to the students having a different teacher each year. Subjects: English, Education

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Citations: 1994 Meredith Carlson Hartford Courant (Conn.) (Mar. 3) “‘Looping’ Could Provide Pupils With More Continuity” p. C5: School administrators are likely to implement “looping” next year. Teachers would flip-flop grades so that one teacher would move up with youngsters while the other teacher moved down a grade. 1994 Ruth Yodaiken Washington Post (Sept. 15) “Non-Graded School Brings Innovation, Optimism” p. J3: Another feature of the Nongraded School is “looping.” Students will spend up to two years in the same class before they “loop” to another level. 1997 Jim Grant Looping Q & A (Sept. 1) p. 12: Looping is a practice which allows single-grade teachers to remain with the same class for a period of two or more years. 1999 Martha Kaufeldt Begin With The Brain (Apr. 1) p. 17: In a multiage (two or three grade levels mixed together) or looping classroom (single graded, but teacher moves with entire class up to next grade), students may stay with the same teacher for two or three years. 2005 Alan Finder @ Ardsley, N.Y. New York Times (July 11) “Goodbye, Class. See You in the Fall”: Having a teacher stay with a class for more than a year—or looping, as it is known—is on the rise.

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