Description: {Become conscientious of all opportunities to teach skills. These opportunities may include spiraling of curriculum, opportunity to reteach content as a prerequisite skill, or other instances where revisiting instruction is possible.
Grade levels: K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12
Shared by: Timothy Kretchman
More helpful details: This data strategy requires you to become aware of two pieces of information. First, you must be aware that a learner requires additional instruction on a specific skill. Data indicating this need should be considered. Secondly, you must be aware of an upcoming opportunity to reteach the skill. It is important that this instruction should be explicit in nature and not assumed that the learner will simply “pick it up” on their own. Consider developing alternative, differentiated, activities for students who have previously mastered the content being retaught. These students may take a deeper dive into the previously taught content (think Webb’s DOK), begin new content with a self-guided exploration activity, or other meaningful instructional activities connected to the content.
Grouping: Whole Class, Small Group, Individual
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Reteaching opportunities frequently present themselves via the base skills that ought to be initially taught within the classroom. As an English education 7-12 instructor, these opportunities are frequently presented; writing responses, text-dependent analyses, and discussion skills are reteach skills that can be inserted to nearly any lesson and are frequently used in other disciplines. As such, it is my personal opinion that these skills can be mastered by any student, regardless of their performance in the class.
I use this strategy almost daily within my classroom to allow for the struggling students to grow, while enriching those who are ready to grow deeper. By utilizing the special education teacher, along with a building substitute we form groups that best service the children and their current needs based on performance and understanding of the current topic being taught. This allows for teaching and learning at a variety of levels. These groups are fluid, based on demonstration of understanding each concept and student performance.
I am going over a recent reading response with my classes. I will go over successes and where I noticed some struggles. I will go over ways to improve their responses and understand what was being asked. Then the students will have another chance in the near future to try this again.