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=Differentiating Instruction -- Meeting Students At Their Academic Level Group 5=

Rebecca Mattews, Tracy Bumgardner, Lisa Rogers, Alisha Konkle, Katie Weirich, Arianne Menon, Julie Swafford

 Differentiation and Teaching for Mastery (3M and Eli Lilly-paid volunteers)

Strategies for Struggling Learners: Math Lab-ISTEP remediation for progress monitoring-replaces one of their electives-has RTI teacher (one math/one language) Inclusion-double instruction in small setting 90 min block(whole group to small group-45ish min. each) Intervention block-preteach/reteach with gen ed. present and not present Issue with Language/Math intervention time: High Ability Math, on level (band, choir, ….) Lower level-specials teachers taught these groups Electives in fifth/sixth-Health/PE semester Art/Music 9 week classes. 20-30 min after lunch-reading coaches, online resources (plato) mw-math t,th-reading.

Within the classroom: Co-teaching-two teachers/more direct instruction, working on asking questions, sometimes pull into separate rooms. Student placement- student grouping, different homework Direct instruction with (check-ins) Initialing first few problems to get their homework, to pull a small group. Tracking their own mistakes-reflection on what they don’t know-Xs or checks next to answers to homework-gallery walk Pretest chart-by unit for pretest/during/post test Quarter assessments-2 hrs twice a month for building these activities Math Olimpiad-good for enrichment-online Enrichment group-problem solving Put notes online to download- Math vocabulary notebook-first section word, definition, example, and creative box-part of unit test Providing strategies for studying for a math test.

Math Club Parent Volunteers