Differentiating By Readiness: Strategies and Lesson Plans for Tiered Instruction, Grades K-8

by Linda Allen, Joni Turville

Overview

Teach your students based on their readiness levels with tiering strategies from Joni Turville, Linda Allen, and LeAnn Nickelsen. You’ll offer lessons designed to challenge each student appropriately, and in ways that save time and yield actual progress.

In this book, the authors demonstrate how tiering, a standards-based differentiation strategy which uses readiness as a basis for instructional planning, helps teachers introduce the right degree of content complexity for each student. The result? Greater student success and less time spent re-teaching.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to tiering plus step-by-step instructions for using it in your classroom. Also included are 23 ready-to-apply blackline masters, which provide helpful ideas for activities and classroom management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596671379
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/2005
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joni Turville is an award winning teacher and brings energy and expertise to both her presentations and instructional practice, which also includes working as a technology consultant, administrator, and university instructor. She has written numerous articles and books, focusing on effective instructional strategies, differentiated instruction, and technology. Joni is also passionate about professional development and has developed many train-the-trainer programs, as well as done significant work in using technology for professional development. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is a popular local, national, and international presenter., Linda G. Allen is an educational specialist, speaker, and writer. She works with both general education and special education teachers from kindergarten through high school, and provides training for substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents. Her long-time interest in brain-compatible research has provided opportunities to extend her knowledge of brain-compatible strategies, of building communities of learners, and of teaching students with special needs. Her topics include memory strategies for learning, novelty in the classroom, stress and threat, and processing learning. Linda lives near Louisville, Kentucky on a daylily farm. She has a husband, one daughter, three sons, two daughter-in-hearts, and a new grandson, along with two spoiled dogs, lots of deer, turkey, groundhogs, spiders, and snakes., LeAnn M. Nickelsen is a nationally recognized presenter, consultant, and author with a passion for the learning experience and those who lead it. Prior to founding Maximize Learning, LeAnn was a classroom educator and was awarded Teacher of the Year for her excellence in the classroom. She has written multiple books and frequently presents on a wide range of topics, including brain research, differentiation, deeper learning, reading and vocabulary strategies, and nutrition affecting cognition. She is known for deli

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Building the Foundation: What is Tiering in Differentiated Instruction?; Chapter 2 The Essential Building Blocks: Getting Ready to Tier; Chapter 3 The Blueprint for Tiering: Designing with the End in Mind; Chapter 4 Pour the Concrete! It's Time to Tier; Chapter 5 Passing Final Inspection: Assessment of Tiered Products; Chapter 6 Cutting the Tape: Time to Start Tiering!;