Tiered ActivitiesTiered ActivitiesTiered Instruction features: Whole group introduction and

initial instruction Identification of developmental

differences Increase or Decrease the:

Abstraction Extent of Support Sophistication Complexity of goals, resources, activities & products

First cast of the dice …

3

1 + 2 = 3

1 x 2 = 2

Second cast of the dice …

3 + 4 = 7

3 x 4 = 12

3

+ 12

15

Third cast of the dice …

5 + 1 = 6

5 x 1 = 5

15

+ 6

21

Fourth cast of the dice …

3 + 6 = 9

3 x 6 = 18

21

+ 18

39

21

+ 9

30

Modifications for Advanced Students

Play to 100 Disallow paper for calculations or

remembering numbers Use powers Use subtraction Allow negative numbers What about fractions?

Tiered Lesson: Using Powers Option

81

34 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 8143 = 4 x 4 x 4 = 64

Tiered Lesson:Exploring Options

2+ 6 = 82 x 6 = 1226 = 64

62 = 362 - 6 = -46 - 2 = 4

What about using …

64

36

… a multi-sided die

… or two

We could really shake things up…

12

… try three dice and use the distributive law!

12 + (3 x 18) = 12 + 54 = 66(12 + 18) x 3 = 30 x 3 = 90

Did you get closer to 100?

CONTENT

Standards

Unit Conceptsand

Generalizations

What Students

will Know

What Students will

Understand

What Students will

Be Able to Do

The Horse Before the Cart

Content

Process

Product

PROCESS

Flexible Grouping

Think-

Pair-Share

Simulations

Learning Contracts

Materials

Pace of Instruction

Graphic Organizers

Tiered Assignments

PRODUCT

Essay

Letter

Graph

Puppet show

Survey

Display

Debate Detailed Illustration

Model

Timeline

Venn DiagramDemonstration

Video Film or

Documentary

What is Tiering? One form of differentiation.  Ensures that students with different

learning needs work with the same essential ideas and use the same key skills but at different levels of Complexity Abstractness Open-endedness

Tomlinson, C. (1995).  The Differentiated Classroom. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.