Content What Students Learn (Interest)

Process How Students Learn (Rigor)

• Allow small group or partner work instead of independent assignments.

• Preview key terms or concepts before introduc-ing a new topic.

• Give students two minutes to “turn-and-talk” with a partner before sharing in a whole-class discussion.

• Print the PowerPoint slides or guided notes page for a student who struggles to keep up with the lesson.

• Pre- annotate a text for a student who strug-gles with reading by underlining key details and writing guiding questions in the margins.

• Give “prior warning” by letting a student know ahead of time when you will ask them to answer a question or read aloud to the class.

• Provide sentence starters or a step- by- step checklist for assignments.

• To review a skill that most students have already mastered, give struggling students step- by- step instructions, word banks, detailed anchor charts or illustrated comics from the initial lesson when you first introduced the concept or skill.

• Write the process into questions.

• Allow students to skip “busy work” and move directly to a challenge question.

Instead of an English or Social Studies essay, students can show mastery through the following tasks:

Instead of a Math or Science worksheet, students can show mastery through the following tasks:

Write a song or rap lyrics.

“Teach the class” a mini- lesson.

Participate in a group discussion.

Record a video tutorial.

Write a creative story or poem.

Perform a skit.

“Teach the class” a mini- lesson.

Create a poster or work of art for a whole

class “Gallery Walk”.

Create Instagram posts, tweets or text messages to illustrate correct grammar, historical events, literary summaries, analysis, etc.

Create a PowerPoint presentation.

Act out a scene. Lead a discussion.

Design an instructional

poster.

Illustrate a detailed timeline.

Draw a character map. Design a comic strip. Create a step-by-step storyboard.

Illustrate a mind map.

• Create and display a visual illustration or comic to introduce challenging concepts, definitions, skills and step- by- step processes.

• Replace a typical mini- lesson or lecture with an instructional video that introduces and gives examples of the concept or skill.

• Use interest surveys or general student interests to teach academic skills through interesting reading content (celebrity bios, relevant how- to guides, urban legends, etc).

• Replace boring fiction and nonfiction texts with short films or film clips.

• Write student names, birthdates and interests into handout questions (grammar, word problems, etc).

• Instead of boring homework, ask students to research, write about, answer hypothetical math and science questions, or apply other skills to celebrities, pop culture fads, urban legends or personal goals.

• Instead of traditional guided practice or inde-pendent work, have students illustrate a social mediapost or tweet to show what they learned.

• Introduce new and complex content using mind maps, storyboards, timelines and character maps.

Product How Students Show Mastery (Assess)

Write and solve their own fun word problems based

on basic equations.

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