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For struggling students, the map serves as a point of guidance for the skills they
need to master before working toward the curriculum goals – they can see what
they need to work on.
For the students who can already reach a goal, activities that can extend their
learning may include additional lessons that bring students to higher level skills,
or open-ended activities or projects related to the topic.
2. FIND OUT WHERE THE STUDENTS
ARE
Once the map is created, a pre-assessment for the entire class may now be
administered. It is advised to avoid multiple-choice tests and instead try to offer
engaging alternatives, such as an escape room, in which players work through a
series of puzzles to receive keys that allow them to escape from a locked room.
These puzzles are based on the skills they’ll cover in an upcoming unit. We may
now observe to note which students are struggling with different skills.
We may prepare topic of a mini-lesson and split it into three small-group lessons:
one targeted toward students ready to meet that goal, another for students who
need more support in that area, and another for students who are ready to
expand on that skill.
For example, if we are working on a narrative unit and the skill of focus is
collecting information, students ready for that skill work on an activity focused on
that. A group that needs more support may work on an activity that helps them
develop descriptive details to add to their story, including sketching elements of
the story to create a visual to assist them in adding details as they compose a
draft. Students who have already mastered collecting information to add details to
a narrative can expand their skills by considering how their story could change if it
was told from someone else’s perspective.
The key to small-group lessons is to make them flexible and fluid, so students are
working with different peers on building and reinforcing the skills they need to
master in the unit. The groups should rotate based on the readiness level of the
individual students.
While we are required to give a periodical test which all students should
complete, a second assessment which is choice-based may be conducted to
show what they know in a way that makes them feel most confident.