Ch. 5 Tiering Assessments

Wormeli defines Tiering as the process of which teachers embark upon to adjust assignments and assessments for their student’s growth and intelligences. A tier is the different levels of something like each tier on a cake. They must line up and stay balance, but it is important to not adjust each lesson. Students need to learn the give and take (sometimes we guide them and other times we force them into being who we know that they can be). To assure understanding, we must remember to ask questions and not just spill information. I like the task of making a learning contract. This is an agreement that both the teacher and the student can refer back to as a guide throughout each lesson. Choices are key and keep students interested, I like the tic-tac-toe board approach. This is neat for the teacher and the student. We will not get bored because we would rarely be reading the same thing twice and the students get to do what they want so they should achieve a great grade. The example of RAFT(S) that Wormeli suggested is also something that I may take to my classroom. These are fun ways to choose what their project is going to be. Being shy, talking is something that I tend to avoid, but I appreciated the advice of getting a colleagues opinion and asking questions to decipher if you’re going about an assignment correctly and efficiently, especially if you are team teaching with someone.