Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: High and Low Ability Levels and all Those in Between I have a student that STAR tested this week with an instructional reading level on tenth grade at the seventh month. I have another student that tested on a first grade reading level at the ninth month. For a classroom with such a range in reading ability levels, does the high achieving student benefit from being a peer tutor for a student with such a low reading level or should the differentiation for the high student be on the tenth grade level? It seems that with the new student growth percentiles that this method for differentiating would be beneficial to the lower student, but would not produce the challenge needed for the higher student to meet their growth percentiles. Am I correct? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Differentiation can be excuted in several ways, so you could allow the higher and lower achievers to both complete activities that will encourage academic growth. Meaning, you could still allow the higher achiever to serve as a peer tutor to the lower achiever. However, in addition, you could assign the higher student to write a report to articulate the process and strategies they utilized to assist their peer, and provide an explanation of if they felt it was beneficial or not. If they respond that it was not, they then will give an explanation of what they think they could have done differently. For the lower achiever, having a peer to assist them and present the information in another way will benefit them significantly if they focus and retain the information accordingly. It has been tested and proven that students sometimes learn from their peers more conpared to their teachers. So hopefully, this predicament will not be any different.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Good idea. Rated On: October 15, 2017 8:38 pm Rated By: ysyByg                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Great idea. Rated On: October 23, 2017 2:56 am Rated By: RaZyma                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: I agree this is a good solution. Rated On: October 8, 2018 3:05 am Rated By: ByGeDa                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) No The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement No The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue No The suggested solution is original No Comments: This is wrong. I would never do this. Rated On: October 14, 2018 9:33 pm Rated By: MeHuZu