Tiering is teaching the essentials of any given lesson to students but by creating multiple tasks with varying difficulty according to the students readiness to ensure success for every student as well as keeping their educational experience with in each students ZPD.
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These are great examples of tiered lessons. The basic assignment is there for all the students to participate in, but each task is slightly different accommodating the different levels of readiness. By the end of the assignment each of the students will have performed the task that was within their ZPD, solidifying their new found knowledge.
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It is my belief that most lessons can be tiered. Some may take more creativity. Some of the lessons that may not be as tierable as others are math lessons,because there is such a natural progression of math skills. So as far as I can tell not all of these would be tierable. But with such lessons, students could still be groups according to readiness, or paired up with other students for a peer tutoring to ensure that students are successful with the assigned task.
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Your response is a bit general, but the process was pretty complicated. It may have been a little scary to really analyze these strategies individually. How do you feel your understanding of them, and of tiering is NOW, after we've addressed them in class?
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