Pre-Assessment for Differentiation - Ed Tworek 8th Grade Math Class

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1. 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly.  Strategies:  Provide more difficult problems to solve and research on the web.  Assign peer teaching responsibilities between these 5 students and 5 lower achieving students to challenge higher achievers to assist lower achievers.  Assessments:  Assign project based quizzes and learning via online and mobile apps like Socrative and Kahoot.  Use Kahn academy tests / quizzes for ongoing assessment and self-paced progress throughout unit lessons.

2. 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills.  Strategies:  Assign presentation assignments where these students must create prezi style material to teach each other the unit lesson.  Introduce more complicated problems via the Gradual Release of Responsibility process where first I solve a problem than they solve problems in groups / teams and finally they each solve a set of problems individually.  Assess using fun quizzes from Socrative or Kahoot, use verbal open questions and answers in class, and finally use exit questions at the end of the class time allocated.

3. 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic.  Strategies:  Team these students with the 5 students who are excelling as peer learning buddies.  Use Gradual Release of Responsibility with this small group independent of the rest of the class.  Research and assign online games for extra practice of the unit math material.  Provide tutoring / mentoring after normal class time to give extra attention.  If necessary, notify parents of learning concerns and ask that they spend some time with the students on problems at home.  Assessments:  Use fun quizzes from Socrative and Kahoot.  Apply scaffolding techniques to break lesson material into more manageable sub-sections with assessment quizzes and mini-projects along the way.