Chapter 5: Tiering Assignments

In chapter five titled “Tiering Assessments” I really liked how Wormeli suggested critiquing your assignment or assessment with someone else that teaches a similar subject. This allows you to make sure that you are achieving what you intended to. Along with this, because the teacher you are looking to for advice teaches a similar topic they will know what you should be trying to teach the students. Wormeli included tiering questions that you could approach your colleagues with as well that would be very useful. Also, I liked how Wormeli gave samples of tiering tasks. The one I liked most was the learning contracts. This enables the student to work at their own pace, on something that interests them. Even though the teacher will tell the student what they need to work on, the student can do their assignment in a way that they enjoy.