A Practical Guide to Tiering Instruction in the Differentiated Classroom: Classroom-Tested Strategies, Management Tools, Assessment Ideas, and More to Help You Create Effective Tiered Lessons That Work for Every Learner

by Sarah Armstrong, Stephanie Haskins

Overview

In this practical guide, teacher and brain-based learning expert Sarah Armstrong offers the tools and techniques that make designing tiered lessons manageable. She guides teachers through pre-assessing before a unit, identifying scaffolds necessary to support students, and focusing instruction around essential understandings. She demonstrates how to design tiered questions that engage students at their level and involve high-level thinking skills; she also shows how to incorporate choice and collaboration to motivate students. Armstrong shares a wealth of strategies, planning sheets, graphic organizers, and more to make tiered instruction a success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545394819
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. Sarah Armstrong, president of Leading and Learning Solutions, is a consultant on instructional improvement, including the application of brain research and effective differentiation in the classroom. Her wide-range of experience as an educator includes serving as a reading specialist, supervisor of gifted and reading, elementary principal and assistant superintendent. Sarah conducts workshops at national and state conferences and works regularly with administrators and teachers in school districts across the country. Her book, Teaching Smarter with the Brain in Focus, published by Scholastic is frequently used in many schools as a faculty book study. Her new book entitled, A Practical Guide to Tiering Instruction in the Differentiated Classroom became available in October 2010. Sarah is an adjunct instructor for several universities, including the University of Virginia where she teaches classes in UVA’s alternative licensure program for prospective teachers. When not immersed in education, Sarah thrives on singing in an acappella early music group and playing the hammered dulcimer. Sarah is married to Stu Armstrong; they have four children.