1. Tiered Assignments Follow
Up
9/24/12

2. Agenda
Quickwrite
Essential Question
Review and Building on Cornell Notes to take notes on Tiered Assignments
Tiered Assignment Follow Up
Socratic Seminar from self generated questions from Cornell Notes
Summary

3. Quickwrite: Pick 3-5 to answer
about Differentiated Instruction
(Anticipatory Set)
❖ What do I already know about the topic?
❖ Where have I heard about the topic before in pop culture or
another class?
❖ What do others likely feel about the topic?
❖ How does this topic relate to controversial subjects today?
❖ How can I relate to the topic?
❖ What questions do I have about the topic?

4. Essential Question
How can I use differentiated instruction or
tiered assignments in my lessons?

5. output input
Have the students During a
video or
generate questions
here after the
lecture, the
lecture and
notetaking. Try to
students
avoid many “Level
1” questions.
should write
Shoot for open-
ended questions
here only!
for a discussion.
Why?
How?Do
you
think?
MANDATORY. These are the answers
to your questions.

7. sample Level 1 activities
(lowest points)
Bubble maps
Definitions
Copying
Listing
Creating and answer “Level 1” questions (Who?What?When?Where?)

8. Sample Level 2 activities
(medium points)
Venn Diagrams/Double Bubble Maps
Diamante poems (compare and contrasting)
Frayer Models
Drawings
Timelines
Creating and answering “Level 2” questions ( “Why?
How?)

9. Sample Level 3 activities
(highest points)
Judgements, Evaluations, Predictions, Comments ( In
my opinion, ____b/c____. This bothered me because
________. If_______, then _______.
Activities that require imagination. (Facebook profiles,
I am poems, “Stewies”)
AVID “investigations” (Print Document, Political
Cartoon, Video, etc)

10. Misconceptions and Concerns
(Buccolo)
(Buccolo)
Tiered Assignments aren’t just groups of activities;
they are purposely chosen according to the thinking
skills necessary to complete them.
Definitely need to pre-teach the different activities and
how to do them; also helps to have the posters in the
room for reference
I plan to teach each of the level two and level three
activities from the posters as mini-lessons sprinkled
throughout my daily lessons until the students are
familiar with all of them.

11. My first experience with Tiered Assignments was
when Mr. Norwood co-taught with me in one of my
Senior English classes recently.
We used the Tiered Assignment as the evaluation for
the end of the first section of Dreams from My Father.
Happy to report that the kids were on task for two
solid hours; didn’t complain about the assignment;
and all finished their work!!

12. Back to Cornell Notes
Questions and Socratic
Seminar

13. Summary