There’s never too wide a range of ability among your students.
Exploit opportunities to use diversity of abilities and experience among your students. Among the effective ways:
- Form homework teams among your students, or encourage them to do so.
- Advocated in CAPA courses but possible to construct in any environment.
- Use the workshop paradigm frequently in recitation.
- Start a computer forum or email listserver for your recitations.
The idea here is to employ the faster students in bringing the slower ones up to pace. They will often be better at doing so than you will!