I team taught with the resource teacher in my middle school social studies class the last 6 years that I taught . I still say that she was the best teacher in our school , as she got more out of her kids than any teacher I knew . We had mixed classes as her kids were main streamed in regular classes . We didn’t hold back the other students , as I taught at my normal pace . Her job was to keep her students up to pace , and help them if they were struggling. We included them in every activity in class ,and we expected them to be responsible and do what everyone else was doing . We had some really low kids , but they kept up and became much more responsible as the year went on . They knew what we expected, and they really tried to do it . I felt that teaching the students to be responsible was the most important thing they could learn . Were these students all going to graduate , and go to college , No , but could they graduate and get a job and be productive members of society, yes . If you hold kids to a standard, they can learn , and be successful.