Monday, November 8, 2010

Blog #9

For this blog, I'm asking you to have a "What if?" experience. Think of one of the strategies you've learned about, and a realistic application in, let's say, math, in your specific field experience classroom. (If not math, you choose the subject area... but something you really might be teaching during field!). This does not have to be lengthy... just state the content you're talking about and the strategy you can envision using.

One part of differentiation I would like to try in class, because we have a hugely diverse classroom, would be to use the dice. I want to combine Elaine Tuft's Launch-Explore-Summarize with the dice method. I would have red, blue and black dice. Each being a different set of level that the student's are on. On the board, in each color, I would write down questions about the same math problem, but on different levels. I would probably put together six different problems of the same area of learning. Then I would have them work in groups to work on these problems.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a great way to try out some tiering. Let me know how it worked. 4 points

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