FIAE Chapter 5: Tiering Assignments

This chapter is about tiering assessments successfully so that they are neither too hard nor too easy. The trick is to develop an assessment that pushes students but at the same time meets their readiness levels. I learned that there are a number of different ways to tier an assessment or assignment. One such way is to create different menus with different options for students to pick from. This way means the teacher has some say in determining what the students do while giving them some options. This idea was very appealing to me for use in my classroom because it meant that I could excite the students to do their work by interesting them in the project while having some control on the conditions.