Synthesis of ch 5: Tiering Assessments

Over all, after reading the classes responses I found most of us were nervous and still unsure about whagt exactly "tiering" was and how we could use it in our classroom. I found a useful website that mentions contracts, RAFT, learning menus, checkpoints, tic tac toe charts and how to make a cube. Differentiating lessons are meant for tiering and adjusting. We are forced to make a balance in our class and want everyone to succeed. If students agree on contracts, make choices, and have a checklist, success will come natural. It is our job to accommodate. We cannot do this teaching solely on ourselves, so contracts assure the help of the students and sometimes the parents as well. We need to get everyone involved because if their is no balance the cake will fall over or in another words the learning will hault. Although all these tools are helpful, we still need to rely on ourselves and our students sometimes. We need to ask questions to know that they are learning instead of constantly spilling informatioin. Tiering may seem intimadating, but I'm sure it will come natural to all of us in given time.