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Use a student’s readiness assessment, current grade, grade on last assessment, score on pretest, etc. as a data point.
As students this question before forming cohorts: WHICH TYPE OF LEARNER BEST DESCRIBES YOU? as a second data point.
- I like to figure things out on my own.
- I like to figure things out on my own, knowing that the teacher will be there to help me if I get frustrated.
- I like to have the teacher help me make a plan for my learning, with a little bit of independence.
- I like to have the teacher guide my learning.
Take both data points, along with any other observations you’ve made during class, into consideration when forming cohorts.
- You could provide “the same” lesson to all four groups and have them rotate through all activities… but that’s not really Personalized Learning.
Instead
- Provide TIERED lesson that appear to be the same, but vary in depth, complexity, abstract vs. concrete, inquiry vs. guided, etc. but still hit the same “big idea(s).”
And/Or
- Sequence the lessons so that the red cohort gets the lessons in an inquiry series and there is progressively more scaffolding for the other groups, giving the green cohort the most support.
How Can Schoology Support This?
How Can Schoology Support This?
Different folders for each cohort
Number in front signifies the “day” that activity was done in class (may put the date in next year instead since those meant nothing to the students, but helped we organizationally)
Loaded links and/or handouts if they were not made available electronically (some groups did paper copies of things and others did electronic - just depended on the activity).
Feedback from students
Feedback from students
- overwhelmingly positive!
- “...we got to work with different people and we all got to share our ideas so the activity makes sense…”
- “...we got to discuss it and we got more information on the same topic. It really solidified what we learned.”
I would recommend…
- Creating activities that have directions for students to self-start and/or a starter video to help everyone get rolling at the same time (so you don’t have to be in more than one place at the same time!)
- Possibly having an anchor activity available for students to do if they finish early, since you won’t move them into the next activity until the next day.
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