Here are a couple of ideas that you may find useful as you are planning your differentiation. Please feel free to share anything you try or find. I'd love to hear your comments, as well. Grouping Ideas At the end of a lesson, have students decide at what level they feel they have mastered the standard. Students can put a notecard with their name on it in the appropriate folder; they can even add questions, if you like. Now you know who has mastered the standard and can be accelerated, who needs additional help and who needs re-teaching. Differentiating for ELL StudentsA Sample Reading Lesson
The problems the teacher faces when teaching differentiated classes (ranging from mixed ability to ELLs) include how to plan lessons that can meet the needs of all the students, preventing the higher-performing students from getting bored and the lower-performing students from feeling lost. Reading Tasks for Lower-Performing Students
Since many ELLs are still not achieving proficiency in general education classes and across content areas, teachers need to find ways of integrating these students to help them catch up with their native English-speaking peers. By building on the knowledge of what ELLs can do successfully, either individually or in small groups, teachers will have a much easier time customizing instruction so that ELLs can reach their learning potential. Sasson, Doris. "Integrating ELL Students in General Education Classes." Edutopia. 1 December, 2014
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Zach Talley
10/25/2015 11:11:35 am
I've seen this before, but never put it into play. After looking at my most recent test results, I think I'm gonna give this a shot. Physics tends to be hit & miss with some folks: some take the ball and run others can't seem to find their feet.
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Dana Ford
10/25/2015 10:22:14 pm
Would love to hear how it works for you!
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Brittney Adams
10/26/2015 01:07:34 pm
I like that students put their note card in the folder about how they feel about mastery! That makes it easy for the teachers to figure out who does not understand and who does. :)
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Lori Townsend
10/28/2015 05:34:07 pm
I agree Brittney. It would determine who is understanding and who isn't!
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Penny Graves
10/30/2015 02:29:23 pm
Students probably feel safe submitting questions this way since they are not asking questions in front of everybody else. This is a neat idea that I'm going to try.
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Aleatha
11/4/2015 09:29:48 am
Cannot wait to try this one....
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Bill Steele
11/27/2015 08:32:29 pm
Thank you for the examples. I will try something similar.
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