EP246 A more intuitive approach to tiered and differentiated instruction (with Tia Butts)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
You know your students and who's struggling, and you can prepare lesson scaffolding even without data "proof" that students need it.
Tia Butts, teacher and Truth for Teachers writer, is joining me for a relaxed, upbeat conversation about 4 ways she's simplified tiered instruction and differentiation in her classroom.
Tia shares how she uses a relationship-based approach with students to assess and meet their needs, rather than relying ONLY on data and assessment scores. Her process is about trusting herself and her students, and finding ways to make the extra work of differentiation truly meaningful.
She's learned to think of tiering instruction and differentiating as something wonderful that she really likes doing because of the impact she sees on her students. Tia's found that her students are more engaged in their learning when she uses these 4 strategies, and that makes her day with them less stressful and more enjoyable.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 246 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host Angela Watson, |
| 0:08.9 | and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators |
| 0:14.3 | and get you energized for the week ahead. Today, I'm talking with teacher Tia Bats about |
| 0:19.6 | her more intuitive approach to differentiating learning and tiered instruction. You can |
| 0:25.0 | visit TruthForTeachers.com to get her easy-to-read, easy-to-share version of this podcast |
| 0:30.2 | episode. The need for socio-emotional learning this year is obvious, but competing priorities |
| 0:36.4 | can make it difficult to find time for SEO. Word workouts available at wordworkouts.org is |
| 0:43.6 | a free pre-K to 12 lesson library that helps students reflect on the most common emotions |
| 0:49.4 | they feel every day. Each lesson combines a physical movement video like a next stretch |
| 0:54.8 | with a set of reflection prompts that are all related to a single emotion and can be |
| 0:59.4 | done in as little as 10 minutes. To start using this 100% free resource with your students, |
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