1. My understanding is: That Tiering is an approach intended to help students at their readiness level and to do so at levels of difficulity appropriately challenging for each student.
*Components of Good Tiering: Establishing what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the activity. Develop assignments/activities that are engaging and focus on goals. Prepare students at their readiness levels. Create multiple versions of a task at DIFFERENT degrees of difficulty.
2. Tic Tac Toe #1 version is tiered=Both versions ask students to explore the concepts but are tiered. RAFT tiered for interest and readiness.
3. Learning contracts are tiered for their individual needs for self-management. The reason I think it is tiered is because she stated that each ticket had a dfferent assignment under the common heading or topic on the ticket. I liked this idea because Each student is accountable for themselves and is slowly making them less dependent on the teacher and more independent individuals.
Think Dots: The think dot versions 1,2,3 it seemed different in difficulty which would be tiering for readiness. If the teacher seperated the students into readiness groups and had the think dot worksheet that was appropriate for each level this would be a wonderfully developed tiered activity. (it reminds me of the activity we did in class a few weeks back on the Hallmarks of Differentiation)
Multiple Entry Journal: "The mutliplue entry journal provides a structure to guide all students' reading by promoting focus, concentration, and thought as they read." They are great tools to help students become more proficient in using text materials. This would also be tiered for readiness, the first version with many concepts could help the students really struggling and needs focus. The second version is more for the average student with a few things to remember and to apply while reading. Then the third version would be for advanced learners who may not need as much direction and understand the reading strategies and who manage independently.
My question: Is there a book that is full of engaging lesson ideas/plans(that correlate with grade levels) that assist teachers to tier lessons?
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It sounds like you have an excellent understanding of differentiating, in general. You probably see the subtle differences about tiering as differentiation, after our class discussion on it. Good for you! About there being a book on engaging ideas.... yes, I think there are a lot of them, including the MODELS OF INSTRUCTION you all had as a textbook your junior year. Carol Tomlinson introduced ME to that book! Any GOOD lesson can be differentiated in some way or multiple ways. In fact, to appropriately differentiate, you have to start with GOOD instruction and strategies. The actual act of tiering is a very individual task... something that each teacher would have to do based on the unique situation and the unique needs of the students. You're ready to this.... right?
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