Teachers, students, and parents work together to ensure continuous engagement and challenge for each student.
What is creating the climate?
100
The use of a variety of student groupings to accomplish learning tasks is foundational. The groupings are dynamic and change according to the student work, roles, experience, and expertise.
What is flexible grouping?
100
Engagement increases when we offer students the chance to choose how they demonstrate their learning
What is the result of using menus?
100
Tic-tac-toe and choice boards
What are examples of menus?
100
The "what" students are working on learning
What is content?
200
Content, process, and products are developed in response to the varying needs/interests of the learners.
What is knowing your learners?
200
Considering your students' affective needs, the physical environment of your classroom and the needs of your parent community
What are ways to build a postive climate in your classroom?
200
Engagement increases when students can openly discuss themes in literature, science, math, history or the arts.
What is the result of using a socratic seminar?
200
Engagement increases when students have appropriate vocabulary to use to express their thinking.
What is the result of using a word wall?
200
How students learn or engage the material or content
What is process?
300
Learning experiences are based on data; diagnosis of student readiness, interest, and/or learning profile and involve continuous progress monitoring.
What is assessing your learners?
300
Learning targets and assessment
What are critical elements of differentation?
300
Engagement in writing increases when students have choices when creating a piece that reflects their learning.
What is the result of using a RAFT?
300
Engagement increases when students are asked to consider ideas that have merit and are challenging through the use of this strategy
What is higher level questioning?
300
What students produce to demonstrate their learning
What is product?
400
Think! pair! share!, cooperative learning, according to abilities, interest, and readiness
What are examples of flexible grouping?
400
Interests, abilities and learning styles
What are elements of knowing your students?
400
Engagement increases when students are asked to express their thinking in a variety of ways
What is the result of cubing?
400
Allows the teacher to work with the variety of learning styles and abilities at the same time, all with challenging and respectful work
What is tiered instruction?
400
Visual, auditory, kinestic
What are examples of learning styles?
500
Areas to differentiate in the curriculum
What are content, process and product?
500
Pre, formative and summative
What are types of assessment?
500
Engagement increases when students are given a chance to design their own learning opportunities
in order to work towards meaningful goals based on standards and performance data
What is the result of using learning contracts?
500
A structured approach for students to share their thinking and learn from each others’ thinking.
What is a socratic seminar?
500
A teacher's response to the varying needs demonstrated by students