October 13th

Pg. 136-140
What is tiered?
Tiering is creating tasks at different degrees of difficulty so that students who are at differing readiness levels can all achieve at levels of difficulty appropriately challenging of them as individuals. Or in other words, creating lessons where all of your students learn the same thing, but in different ways depending on their ability.

Pg. 130-135
Are these tiered? If not how could you tier them?
Think-tac-toe is tiered, it has different questions for higher level and lesser level learners. But at the same time they overlap enough that it doesn’t make it a big deal to the students.
I wouldn’t consider the RAFT as tiered because all the students have the same choices. If it was tiered, then some students would have different activities to choose from that would fit their level better.

Pg. 149-162
Are these “tierable”?
I think that Learning Contracts can be tiered. The students have a group of activities and assignments they have to complete, but the teacher can change what activities certain students do to fit their level as long as the learning objective is still met. The best way to do that might be for the teacher to create a packet of assignments for each student with their level of assignments.
ThinkDots can be tiered. In the reading it says that ThinkDots can be created with different activities on them based on their level.
The sample of Multiple Entry Journals in the book was created in a tiered way. There are basic and advanced versions. So yes, this lesson can be taught in a tiered method.