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                                                                       PRE-ASSESSMENT FOR DIFFERENTIATION Pre-assessment helps to determine students’ prior knowledge and also their strengths and weaknesses. At the beginning of a new unit, pre-assessment can provide useful information about their readiness to start new instruction. Then, the teacher can adapt the difficulty of his subsequent lessons accordingly. Based on a pre-assessment, a teacher can differentiate his instruction. Highlighting some pre-assessment questions derived from the learning objectives and/or target standard seems to make the most sense. teacher use the results of the pre-assessment to help guide, differentiate, and challenge students (depending on how the students do on the pre-assessment).  For this unit, gr...

HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENTS               HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENT High-stakes assessment is used to measure learning that are cumulative and the assessment have high importance consequences. It involves graduation, grade advancement. High stake assessment is usually used to make important decision about student school or district and educators as well. They are generally standardized test. Growing up as a student in my country in Nigeria, I was faced with the pressure of passing my exams or repeating the grade level. Most times the intentions for high stake assessment is bias. The pressure I faced were enough to give me bad grades. Teachers in my school were concerned about result more than knowing if students have met with the objective of the lesson. In my school, there was no place for differentiated instruction, students would even have to do extra study on their own, write notes and read on their own, sometimes do all night r...

MULTICULTURAL CONTENT AND MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES My school is an International Community School and has students and families from over 50 countries. We work on the school mission that says “Learning and Leading in a Collaborative Culture.” This mission helps teachers, administration, students and parents to stay together as a family. A community as diverse as this presents a complex challenge: In a place with so many different values and belief systems, what role should an educator play? It is important for me as an educator to have a cultural awareness of the students’ lives and backgrounds. Without this awareness, my sensitivity and compassion for each child would not be able to develop, one of a classroom teacher’s most important roles is to help students develop the critical thinking, collaboration and self-reflection skills necessary to foster a better society. Having multicultural content in lesson plan helps to make students feel inclusive, it brings out student’s voice...