Differentiation Strategies & Assessments
Pre-Assessment
Assessments (ongoing)
Differentiation Strategies
Pop quizzes
Medium (the 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills)
High (the 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly)
Extend knowledge using independent learning with computers
Use physical experiments to reinforce concepts
Low (the 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic, of which 3 are struggling with language and are at different reading levels and 2 students who have little to no comprehension of the the topic and need to be tested further for special needs)
Remediated learning with the teacher
Creating flash cards
Brainstorming
Pre-teach or front load next topic
Concept maps - also return to map after differentiated learning
Checklists for highlights on subjects
Observation - all students, not just low performers
Draw what you know - ask students to describe the drawings
Explain as a group what they know about a subject
Problem - give them a problem to solve
Scavenger Hunt - to assess prior knowledge
Show Me - ask the student to show what they know
Flipped class to have student centered review. Also allows special education students to follow lesson at their own pace.
Learning stations with advanced topics
Learning stations to reinforce existing topics
Target other senses to teach concept - videos, audiobooks, artistic and tactile learning
Think - Pair - Share with Low and High performers
Journal - What do you want to learn? Expand on knowledge
Self Reflection on what I have learned
Reflection on what I have learned
Group students on similar learning styles and not level. This will not punish a group as being Low level learners
Reading comprehension activity - literature circles
Reading comprehension activity - writing a traditional report
Reading comprehension activity - writing a script or monologue for perfromance
Choice of homework or assessment
Assign open ended projects - allow students to express themselves using a format of their choosing
Propose their ideas for a project - the students have a higher stake in the subject
EdTech tools get more challenging as the student understands more
Create differentiated stations with no mandatory rotation