Chapter 5 FIAE: Tiering Assessments

This chapter discusses the idea of “teiring”. Teiring is a way of “ ‘ratcheting’ up or down the challenge level” (p.56). In other words each student will be at a different level in your classroom and it is your job as the teacher to adjust the challenge on students to have them learn at their level. I found that the two most (I thought) informative ways to do this were learning menus, and learning contracts. Learning contracts can be set up with the teacher and student, and the student is able to work at their own pace and on skills that they, and the teacher, feel need to be worked on. Student menus are a good way to provide teiring in the classroom. Because the students are provided with multiple choices, each of which get more challenging as you read down the list of options. This is helpful for the teacher, because with these options the students get to choose which level works best for them, but it also meets the understanding and knowledge part that the teachers want their students to learn.