How to Prepare

You can refer to resources during the exam. So, you should focus on familiarizing yourself with the resources available to you. The more familiar you are with resources, the less time you'll spend looking for them.

I suggest that you review:

• course readings, particularly those from Smarter Together. There are two whole chapters on adapting tasks.
• course materials (slides, activities, etc.) related to complex instruction. Make sure that you know what each of the six features of groupworthy tasks is and how to recognize it in tasks.
• state standards for the given grade level (TBA in Week 7) & any readings, from the course or elsewhere, that are necessary for you to understand the core mathematical ideas in the standards.
• groupworthy activities that we have done together in class. You can do some practice analysis by looking at these tasks and identifying features of groupworthy tasks. Many of the activities from class incorporate various features of groupworthy tasks.
• groupworthy activities in Smarter Together. For example, the Zoo Task and Mystery Numbers task. You might also practice analyzing some of the tasks in the text using the six features of groupworthy tasks.
• rubric. Make sure that you are clear what is expected and that you feel prepared to meet those expectations.

I also highly recommend that you identify some different participation structures across groupworthy tasks that might help you with your adaptation (e.g., card sort; individual work drives group product, etc). Many of the structures you've experienced or read about in this class are great ways to more easily adapt tasks to be groupworthy. Additionally, Skillbuilders can provide different ideas for how to adapt tasks to be groupworthy, and some of you experienced the "let the chalk do the talk" structure in ELED 422.