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Advanced Differentiation in the Mathematician’s WorkshopIntroduction to Curriculum Compacting

+Our Learning Targets Today:

I can describe the procedures, resources, and rationale for math compacting.

I can develop a plan to implement math compacting in my classroom.

+Are all students challenged during math? Do you have kids that already know the content? Students who master content quickly?

Tell us about someone. What did you do for him or her?

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Curriculum Compacting means: Take what you need and eliminate what you don’t.

What is CURRICULUM COMPACTING?

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The Curriculum Compacting Process

Assess students formatively and summatively

Teach your differentiated groups

Replace core learning activities and lessons with appropriately challenging tasks

Group students according to their mastered learning targets

Identify students who have already mastered specific targets

Pretest students on the learning targets for a unit of study

+Thereby ELMINATING some or all of the text book (core resources) for certain students.

+So why does our curriculum need to be compacted in the first place?

Under-challenge

d Students

Curriculum is rarely rigorous

without differentiation. (One size does

not fit all)

Many advanced learners know

50% of the content at the

beginning of the year. (Westberg

et al., 1993)

Many students learn at a more

rapid pace.

+Research shows this practice improves student achievement.

“A sample of 27 school districts and 465 second through sixth grade classroom teachers throughout the country were selected for this study.…(Students) whose curriculum was specifically compacted in mathematics scored significantly higher than their peers in the control group on the math concepts post test.”

-Renzulli & Reis (1992)

+Our Model Teacher Explains…

Watch Video #1

Think about… How do the practice described relate to work you are already doing for meet the needs of advanced learners during math?

+First Impression:

Turn and Talk:

Is Curriculum Compacting similar to practices you

already use? In what way(s)?

Is it dissimilar to your current practices?