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Tiered Lessons
Part of differentiating instruction is to make sure that all students have a opportunity to work at a developmentally appropriate and challenging level. Instruction can be differentiated in content (what you want the students to learn), process (the way the students make sense of the content), or product (the outcome at the end of a lesson). In tiered lessons, the content is presented at various levels of complexity, but the process is the same for all students. |
Tomlinson (1999) describes tiered lessons as "the meat and potatoes of differentiated instruction." A tiered lesson address a specific standard or leaning goal, but allows several pathways of arrival at this understanding. Lessons can be tiered according to students:
Teacher assigned groups can vary in number and size because they are designed to meet the needs of the students.
- readiness (ability to understand)
- learning profiles (learning style)
- interest (students interest in the topic of study)
Teacher assigned groups can vary in number and size because they are designed to meet the needs of the students.
I have attached a simple tiered lesson I came up with.
tiered_lesson_(k_math).docx | |
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References
National Science Teachers Association (2015). Teaching by Tiering. Retrieved from http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=48723