Preassessment for Differentiation
by Neville Boone
1. Cooperative Strategy
2. • The 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly (High)
3. These students, I will allow to work cooperatively amongst themselves throughout the course, until their final project. Students will work cooperatively from their initial assignment, which is a debate. Students will collaborate together, and find discussion points on the Internet, to help enhance learning.
4. Students will work cooperatively while creating an innovated poster for their final project.
5. I will: • Provide colorful PowerPoint slides. • Hands on material. • Have student complete learning guide
6. Think-Pair- Share
7. • The 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills (Medium)This group of learners will engage in the think-pair-share strategy throughout their learning experience when working from their first assignment until their final project.
8. I will: • Provide colorful PowerPoint slides. • Hands on material. • Have student complete learning guide
9. Students will use this strategy while working of formulating debate arguments for or against big government. Students will also use this strategy for their final project. Students will think on debate arguments, then they will pair what they collectively gathered and they will share
10. Groupthink Strategy
11. • The 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic (Low)
12. This group I will have them in small groups mixed with all learners and have my students engage in the groupthink strategy. I will use this lesson from my initial PowerPoint on entrepreneurship, through to the student’s final oral poster presentation.
13. These students will use the groupthink strategy while trying to create an effective poster for their final assignment. From the initial assignment, which is a debate on the topic, big government versus small government, students will use the groupthink strategy to help formulate debate topical points for argument.
14. I will: • Provide student with handouts and give more time. • Provide colorful PowerPoint slides. • Display slides that have larger than normal wording. • Have student complete learning guide, and cue cards.
