Instructional Grouping in a Differentiated Classroom
Instructional Grouping in a Differentiated Classroom
Marcia B. Imbeau, Ph.D. Professor
University of Arkansas mimbeau@uark.edu
Grouping is......
Take a moment and talk to folks who are sitting near, how would you define grouping and what should it include? Note the concept map on the following slide and discuss where this topic is located and how that location has meaning.What do you and your discussion group conclude?
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Differentiation is a teacher's proactive response to learner needs
shaped by mindset
and guided by general principles of differentiation
Building Community
Quality Curriculum
Teaching Up
Respectful Tasks
Ongoing Assessment
Teachers can differentiate through
Flexible Grouping
Flexible Management
Content
The information and ideas students need to grapple with in order to reach the learning goals
Process
How students take in and make sense of the
content
Product
How students show what they know, understand and can do
according to student's
Affect/ Environment
The climate or tone of the classroom
Readiness
Interest
Learning Profile
Relative standing to the learning goals
Passions, affinities, kinships that motivate
Preferred approaches to learning, intelligence
learning
preferences, gender and
culture
Through a variety of instructional strategies such as
RAFTS...Graphic Organizers...Scaffolding Reading...Tic-Tac-Toe...Learning Contracts....Menus......Tiered Assignments... Learning/Interest Centers... Independent Projects...Intelligence Preferences.....Orbitals....Expression Options......Varied Homework.....Small Group Instruction......Complex Instruction...WebQuests & Web Inquiry...etc.
Purposes of Flexible Grouping
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Make sure you have 4 different partners! Remember that your partner must put your name at the same base!!!
Baseball Partners
___________ Second Base
________ Third Base
________ First Base
___________ Home Base
Judy Rex
Building Community
Getting to Know you Games People Bingo Who in the World Find Someone Who
Random discussion partners about current events, debriefing, just mixing-it-up Jigsaw
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Flexible Grouping
Consistently fluid working arrangements
Whole class, individuals, pairs, triads, quads, etc. Student selected, teacher selected, randomly selected Based on interest, learning profile, readiness Homogeneous, heterogeneous
Key Concept: Flexible Grouping?
Students consistently working in a variety of purposefully planned groups... ...based on different elements of student learning... ...and both homogeneous and heterogeneous in regard to those elements...
Tomlinson (2003) Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom.
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Flexible Grouping
BUZZARDS
BLUEJAYS
WOMBATS
WHOLE GROUP
INDIVIDUAL
SMALL GROUP PAIRS
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