{"id":835,"date":"2018-11-01T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alphapublicschools.org\/?p=835"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:56:16","slug":"scholars-learn-best-when-instruction-is-tailored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alphapublicschools.org\/blog\/scholars-learn-best-when-instruction-is-tailored\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars Learn Best When Instruction is Tailored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Culture Building: Getting to know the scholars through aggressive monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning the year on the right foot is important to every classroom. Paying particular attention to each student\u2019s reading ability is also a high priority. As we launched Reading Power Hour (RPH), students rotated between varying, self guided activities. After a couple of weeks, we began to notice that some scholars were struggling with activities, while others were easily completing them and looking for more. We knew that we had to change the way we approached RPH and in order to do this, we had to focus on differentiation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This led us to look at our approach for mathematics as well. We observed misconceptions that students had and began to establish trends. We saw that students needed to build foundational skills and spend more time independent practice. In order to do this, we needed to shift our approach from a \u201cwhole group\u201d lesson into guided math practice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Differentiation: Shifting Instruction to meet the needs of all scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we set out to meet scholars where they were performing, we used several different sets of data (DRA, Lexia, and CCSS) to inform how we set our groups and the activities that scholars would complete. Having students respond in various ways gave voice to students whether through writing or orally retelling story elements. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math groups has allowed for us to really dig into teaching opportunities in smaller groups. 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