Strategy 1: Teach to Developmental Needs
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competence and achievement; opportunities for self-definition; creative expression; physical activity; positive social interactions with adults and peers; structure and clear limits; and meaningful participation in family, school, and community.
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physical movement. It’s not enough for tweens to move between classes every 50 minutes (or every 80 minutes on a block schedule)
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show students that not everyone starts at the same point along the learning continuum or learns in the same way.
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model asking difficult questions to which we don’t know the answers, and we publicly demonstrate our journey to answer those questions.
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We don’t limit students’ exposure to sophisticated thinking because they haven’t yet mastered the basics
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invite individual students to acquire, process, and demonstrate knowledge in ways different from the majority of the class if that’s what they need to become proficient.
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can teach a global lesson on a sophisticated concept for 15 minutes, and then allow students to process the information in groups tiered for different levels of readiness.
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present an anchor activity for the whole class to do while we pull out subgroups for minilessons on basic or advanced material.
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we should never let the test format get in the way of a student’s ability to reveal what he or she knows and is able to do
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In differentiated classes, grading focuses on clear and consistent evidence of mastery, not on the medium through which the student demonstrates that mastery.
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grade all the projects using a common scoring rubric that contains the universal standards for which we’re holding students accountable
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Of course, if the test format is the assessment, we don’t allow students to opt for something else. For example, when we ask students to write a well-crafted persuasive essay, they can’t instead choose to write a persuasive dialogue or create a poster. Even then, however, we can differentiate the pace of instruction and be flexible about the time required for student mastery.
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llow tweens to redo work and assessments until they master the content, and we give them full credit for doing so
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When we formally assess student writing, we focus on just one or two areas so that students can assimilate our feedback.
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What you really want to measure is curiosity, imagination, passion, creativity, and the ability to see things from multiple points of view.
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I believe that we get into trouble when knowing becomes a surrogate for learning. We know that a vast recall of facts about something is in no way a measure of understanding them.
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To answer this question, we have delivered fully loaded tablets to two villages in Ethiopia, one per child, with no instruction or instructional material whatsoever. The tablets come with a solar panel, because there is no electricity in these villages. They contain modestly curated games, books, cartoons, movies—just to see what the kids will play with and whether they can figure out how to use them. We then monitor each tablet remotely, in this case by swapping SIM cards weekly (through a process affectionately known as sneakernet
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If kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school, what does that say about kids in New York City who do not learn even with school?
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children can learn a great deal by themselves. More than we give them credit for. Curiosity is natural, and all kids have it unless it is whipped out of them, often by school. Making things, discovering things, and sharing things are keys.
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Having massive libraries of explicative material like modern-day encyclopedias or textbooks is fine. But such access may be much less significant than building a world in which ideas are shaped, discovered, and reinvented in the name of learning by doing and discovery.
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