TeacherServer.com
Home | How It Works | Stats
Login | Register
     
  Case: Cotaught Assessment Practices
Mr. Penderfield is a special education coteacher in an American Literature class. The ability level of the class is quite diverse. There is a mixture of special education, regular education, and gifted education students in the class. The regular education teacher and Mr. Penderfield are in the process of creating a tiered assessment. Their fear is that a tiered assessment that is made up of both challenging and easy to complete assignments, to meet the needs of all students, will encourage everyone to complete the easiest assignment. What can the teacher do to solve this problem?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
If you carefully word each assignment, it will be hard for the students to decipher which is the difficult assignment from the easy one. Also what may pose a challenge for one student may not for another regardless of their academic ability; utilizing their creative ability. Also if you strategically place these easy vs. hard assignments over the course of three rows on the paper; requiring that everyone do at least one assignment from each row, increases the chances that they will not choose all easy ones. You can also offer differentiation in making one row all challenging and give specific directions that the students with IEP's must choose from the other two rows, for example (in confidence of course).
 
     
     
  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: This is a great solution- it would be good to prevent the students from telling the difference between higher and lower tiers.
Rated On: October 20, 2014 10:20 pm
Rated By: Maryssa Kane