Mr. Tim

Pre-Assessment and subsequent Differentiation I am struggling to get my head around this activity; my lack of practical teaching experience is compounding my troubles. I think I understand what pre-assessment is all about; a quick check on student knowledge, what are their abilities, understanding, preconceptions, misconceptions etc. My preference is teaching an English class in high school and so that is my starting point. The scenario is this: I am to create an innovative differentiation strategy, for a class consisting of the three groups of students below, and identify the assessments I will use to track students' learning throughout the lesson: the 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly the 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills the 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic, of which 3 are...