Download - Classroom Makeover Day 3
Tiered ActivitiesTiered ActivitiesTiered Instruction features: Whole group introduction and
initial instruction Identification of developmental
differences Increase or Decrease the:
Abstraction Extent of Support Sophistication Complexity of goals, resources, activities & products
First cast of the dice …
3
1 + 2 = 3
1 x 2 = 2
Second cast of the dice …
3 + 4 = 7
3 x 4 = 12
3
+ 12
15
Third cast of the dice …
5 + 1 = 6
5 x 1 = 5
15
+ 6
21
Fourth cast of the dice …
3 + 6 = 9
3 x 6 = 18
21
+ 18
39
21
+ 9
30
Modifications for Advanced Students
Play to 100 Disallow paper for calculations or
remembering numbers Use powers Use subtraction Allow negative numbers What about fractions?
Tiered Lesson: Using Powers Option
81
34 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 8143 = 4 x 4 x 4 = 64
Tiered Lesson:Exploring Options
2+ 6 = 82 x 6 = 1226 = 64
62 = 362 - 6 = -46 - 2 = 4
What about using …
64
36
… a multi-sided die
… or two
We could really shake things up…
12
… try three dice and use the distributive law!
12 + (3 x 18) = 12 + 54 = 66(12 + 18) x 3 = 30 x 3 = 90
Did you get closer to 100?
CONTENT
Standards
Unit Conceptsand
Generalizations
What Students
will Know
What Students will
Understand
What Students will
Be Able to Do
The Horse Before the Cart
Content
Process
Product
PROCESS
Flexible Grouping
Think-
Pair-Share
Simulations
Learning Contracts
Materials
Pace of Instruction
Graphic Organizers
Tiered Assignments
PRODUCT
Essay
Letter
Graph
Puppet show
Survey
Display
Debate Detailed Illustration
Model
Timeline
Venn DiagramDemonstration
Video Film or
Documentary
What is Tiering? One form of differentiation. Ensures that students with different
learning needs work with the same essential ideas and use the same key skills but at different levels of Complexity Abstractness Open-endedness
Tomlinson, C. (1995). The Differentiated Classroom. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.