Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Cluster Model HANDBOOK
Search This Blog
Blog Archive
Directions
Followers
About Us
- Alyssa Hall, Susan Yannitelli, Betsy Kennedy
- We are 2nd and 3rd Grade Cluster teachers at Wildfire Elementary. Combined we have almost 50 years of teaching experience. We approach every year as a new experience and look forward to learning from you as well. Please contact us with any questions or concerns. We are here to help, enjoy! :)
I think that classrooms should consider differentiating instruction. We do this for reading, why not for some other subject matters. Compacting out for math is a way to do this. This is when you test students prior to teaching a new skill or concept. Students that test 90% or higher can surpass this skills. I have done this in the past, but what makes it difficult for teachers, is what to do with the students that don't need to work with the rest of the class. Anybody have any suggestions for this? I have used computer usage, challenge worksheets, and creating quiet projects.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I do if numbers and schedules permit is to take students who compact out of a subject and go further and deeper with that concept. You might look to other upper grade gifted cluster teachers to see what they are working on at the time you teach the compacted concept. The student/s could choose to hang out there until the next assessment and work on what that class is doing (for fun so to speak). The subject would not necessarily have to be the same one as the compacted subject.
ReplyDelete