differentiation tiering
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Overview of differentiated instruction with focus on tiered lessonsTRANSCRIPT
Differentiated Instruction:
Tiering
Betsey Kennedy-Olotka [email protected] Liz Cobia [email protected]
Differentiation DefinedDifferentiation is responsive teaching rather than one size fits all teaching (Tomlinson, 2005). To put it yet another way, it means that teachers proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they will show what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can, as efficiently as possible (Tomlinson, 2003).
What does Tomlinson mean by
“responsive teaching”?
How would you define
differentiation in 10 words
or less?
What does it mean to
“proactively plan”?
Complete the Differentiation
Anticipation Guide
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
There is only one right way to differentiate.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
You have to differentiate all the time to be effective.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Truly differentiated classrooms include whole-group instruction.
TRUE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Differentiation means individualizing assignments for each student.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Advanced students should be used as tutors for struggling students.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
It’s more important to differentiate for struggling students because gifted students will be fine no matter what.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Classroom management is more difficult in a differentiated classroom.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
When tiering a lesson, a teacher should plan for 3 different groups.
POSSIBLY
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Tiered assignments are best for students with IEPs.
FALSE
Differentiation: Fact and Fiction
Tiered assignments lead to unbalanced workloads for students.
FALSE
Tomlinson Framework
• Interesting• Engaging• Challenging• Standards-
Based
Cobb Teacher Keys: Differentiation
So Many Strategies
Learning Stations
Flexible Grouping
CubingCompacting Curriculum
Choice Boards
Menus
Learning Contracts
Orbital Studies
Independent
Study
Think-Tac-Toe
RAFT
Questioning
Tiering
What Is Tiering?Tiered assignments are parallel tasks at varied levels of complexity, depth and abstractness with various degrees of scaffolding, support, or direction. Students work on different levels of activities, all with the same essential understanding or goal in mind. Tiered assignments accommodate mainly for differences in student readiness and performance levels and allow students to work toward a goal or objective at a level that builds on their prior knowledge and encourages continued growth.
– Williams, 2002
Why Tiering Works
Flow concept based on research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Choose Your Subject
ScienceSocialStudies
Math
It Starts with Assessment
Observation Self-Assessment
Tickets In/Out the Door
Quick Quiz
Tiered Graphic Organizers
• Change what is expected
• Change the number of items that need to be listed
• Change the resources
• Change the look of the organizer
Below Level:
How do the 2 characters compare? Write one sentence about the characters on the back.
Tiered Graphic Organizers
Above Level:
Choose 2 characters from the book you are reading and compare them to yourself. Write a comparison paragraph to describe how the characters compare to you.
On Level:
Compare 2 characters from the book you are reading. Write 2 sentences about the characters on the back of the paper.
English Language Learners:
Compare the 2 characters from the book. You can use pictures and words.
Tiered Graphic OrganizersRead If You Give a Mouse a Cookie with a partner. In the chart, draw or write the goods and services you find in the book.
Plan your next birthday party. Write or draw at least 5 goods you hope to have at your party. Then, write or draw at least 2 services you hope to have there.
Goods Services
Make a story like If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Each box is one page. Use words or pictures in each box. You need 3 goods and two services in your story.
Goods Services
Pretend you are at a party. Cut out the pictures below. Look at the pictures and glue each on the correct side of the chart.
Goods Services
On Grade Level Below Grade
Level
Above Grade
LevelEnglish Language
Learners
How Might We Tier this Graphic Organizer?
• Change what is expected
• Change the number of items that need to be listed
• Change the resources
• Change the look of the organizer
Tiered ResourcesUse materials at various reading levels
and complexity to tier by resources.
Tiered Resources
Choose 3 characters in the story and describe in pictures or writing how the
changes in the environment affected each character’s ability to meet its basic needs.
Same Task, Different Sources of Content
Tiered ResourcesSame Task, Different Sources of Content
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Tiered TasksProvide varied tasks that address a student’s level of readiness, from
introductory levels to more abstract, less concrete, advanced work
Tiered Tasks
Above Level:Make a list of 15 quadrilaterals you see in this room. Determine a method to sort these quadrilaterals into groups. Describe the characteristics of each category.
Same Content, Different Process
On Level:
List 3 characteristics of quadrilaterals.
Below Level:These are quadrilaterals.
These are not quadrilaterals:
What are 3 characteristics of quadrilaterals?
ELL:These are quadrilaterals.
Tell 3 things about quadrilaterals.
Tiered TasksSame Content, Different Process
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Tiered TasksSame Content, Same Process, Different Product
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Time to Tier• Tiered Graphic Organizers• Tiered Resources• Tiered Tasks