Use pretests. Break the pretest up into subcategories that align with what you’ll be teaching in this unit. Any student who gets 90% or higher in a subcategory does not need to complete the regular assignments on that topic and instead goes right to challenge work when you are focusing on that material.
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Many online games are easy to differentiate, as they offer a variety of levels of gameplay. You can assign the proper level to your students or once again allow the students to find their level of best fit.
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If you need more problems for your top students, check out the fun competitions at www.onlinemathleague.com, work on differentiated basic fact practice at www.themathfacts.com, or allow students to work on specific levels on www.ixl.com. Whatever you do, do something to ensure that all of your students are working on something they don’t already have mastered.
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professionals often make decisions that deviate significantly from those of their peers, from their own prior decisions, and from rules that they themselves claim to follow… Where there is judgment, there is noise – and usually more of it than you think.”
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In a school, if a principal consistently gives harsher punishments to boys than girls for the same infractions, that is bias, but if she often gives harsher punishments to students just before lunchtime, that’s noise.]
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A noise audit works best when respected team members create a scenario that is realistic, the people involved buy into the process, and everyone is willing to accept unpleasant results and act on them.
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"In This Issue: 1. "Noise" in decision-making 2. Are classroom observations accurate measures of teachers' work? 3. A different way of thinking about differentiation 4. A professor changes his mind about cold-calling 5. Close reading of challenging texts in middle school 6. Good news about the rich-poor gap in kindergarten entry skills 7. On-the-spot assessment tools 8. Short items: The Kappan poll"
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