rit band grouping: stations doni beaupré science teacher campbell county middle school
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RIT Band Grouping: Stations
Doni Beaupré Science Teacher
Campbell County Middle School
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What is “RIT band instruction?”
• Given a student’s (RIT) achievement score (e.g. a science RIT score of 187), teachers identify the portion of the Learning Continuum (e.g. science RIT scores between 181-190) that represents the child’s instructional level. The skills and concepts listed at RIT ranges below that should be ones the student knows and has mastered.
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Learning Target
•Plan how to use RIT band for individual activities
•Create a vocabulary review RIT based game
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How can RIT scores help a teacher?
•Prepare for flexible groupings•By grouping students with similar
RIT bands, a teacher can better meet the instructional needs of each student
•Goal is to create maximum growth for all students… lowest and highest!
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How to group?
• Begin by analyzing the RIT bands in each of your classes
• You may have 5-6 different RIT bands, but begin with 2-3 groups (start small then work up!)
• Divide each class into 2-3 groups (low, middle and high are great places to start)
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Exercise One
• In your cooperative group, review the Des Cartes Binder at your table.
• Choose 10 essential vocabulary terms from the RIT band of 199-210
• As a group, discuss and agree on a definition for each term– Green game boards = Life science– Red game boards = Earth science– Blue game boards = Physical science
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Exercise Two
Create flashcards using the terms and definitions your
group decided
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Exercise Two Continued…
While still in your groups, take a close look at the terms and definitions:
write the term on one side and the definition on the other side
Biology The study of life
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Play the Game!• Randomly place a card definition side up in
each of the six boxes on your game board.• Roll die to determine the first player- highest
roll is first• Player one rolls the die and reads the card
out loud to the other players.• Player one takes a guess as to the term that
matches that definition.• Player one looks at the term and if correct
shows others and places card in their pile
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Play the Game!• If player is incorrect, the card goes back
on the game board (do not show term to other players)
• Player 2 roles die and guesses term on that position
• Repeat until all cards have been played.
•He who has the most cards wins!
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PLAY10 minutes
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Barriers to RIT band instruction
•TIME!•Some concepts may not be
directly in your program of studies or core content for that year
•Student buy-in, especially at the high school level
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Benefits of RIT band instruction
•Meets students where they are!
•A major step in closing the gaps with missing concepts.
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Other Activities….• Popsicle stick word sort• Quizlet.com• File Folder games• Who wants to be a Millionaire• Independent debate projects (upper
RIT)
• Activities should be self check, I used the MAPs score as an indicator as to their progress
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File Folder Games!• Elementary strategy but applicable to
upper grades… if you adapt it!
• Provides a focused RIT band activity
• Each game focuses on a particular science and RIT band
• Extreme individualized grouping!
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Where to begin???• It takes a while to create and gather
activities. • This is how I began…
– I began with Quizlet.com for the higher RIT bands (215 and above in 6th grade)
– I use file folder games for lower RIT bands (190 and below in 6th grade) YEP, I replaced the simple math problems with terms and definitions
– Word sort, popsicle sort, file folder games for the average RIT bands (between 190-215)
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When????
• Some teachers have a review Friday to catch up on the week and RIT band activities
• Every other Friday• Once a month• Once a semester
•ANY TIME YOU CAN!
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Questions?