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Effective Instruction: Putting the Pieces Together March 1, 2010 Good Morning! Please read the following quotes after you logon to your wiki. Decide which one "speaks to you" and post the number of the quote and why. Share with your staff friends your favorite quote.

“Throughout instruction, teachers are challenged to assess which aspects of a problem students are understanding, how their current understanding can be advanced, and what types of experiences will move them incrementally closer to the ultimate instructional goal. __Ready, Set, Science;__ pg. 157 If the required learning did not seem to be happening, the teachers thought about a different approach and gave students more time to come to an understanding. The teachers did not think that the students were unable to understand because of some inherent deficiency in those students. (Dylan Wiliam reflection on teachers in a school working toward implementing formative assessment to drive instruction) __Assessing for Learning__, pg 94 Using a variety of grouping strategies allows you to match students and tasks when necessary and to observe and assess students in a variety of group and task conditions. This flexibility also keeps students from feeling that they are “pegged” into a given classroom niche. __How to Differentiate in Mixed-Ability Classrooms__, pg 26 Teaching asks us to do the impossible. It asks us to establish ties with each child – not to establish ties with all the children as though they were one student. __Fulfilling Promise of the Differentiated Classroom__, pg 22