Classroom and Instruction
Can you please review the icons you use in Differentiation for Real Classrooms for Choice, Tiered and Whole class?
As you begin to grow your practice in differentiating you will start to see the many, many different ways you can deliver information, have students process or check their growth and understanding.
You should first start with whole class ensuring that over a series of days, we are...
I love the idea of offering students choices as a final assessment, but how do I efficiently grade when there are that many different products ? It seems like it would take so much time!
Assessment of different products (poster, skit, poem, etc.) will be efficient if there is one rubric. So the time investment will come at the onset of the planning by establishing clear learning targets -- what the...
In my math class, I want to tier the work the students do to practice new learning. How do I manage the class when three different groups of learners working on varying levels of problems?
Establishing the environment at the beginning of the year will help you manage the class as you begin doing tiered lessons. From day one, begin setting the classroom tone that "Fair is not everybody getting the...
How do I decide on how to group students for varied levels of learning?
Pre-assessment is a very important part of preparing to do a tiered lesson. It is necessary to find the background knowledge of your learners for a particular learning target. You can pre-assess by giving a short pretest, using journal prompts, exit cards, oral response, etc. Develop a clear learning target (C U KA) for the lesson...
I want to try offering some choices on my students’ homework assignments. How do I prepare them for making good choices?
Before offering students choices, have everyone in the class do one project type so they know how to do that project type. For example, have the whole class make picture books. For another lesson have them all do a skit. Then the next time, you can...
