FIAE Chapter 5

Before reading this chapter, I had never heard the term “tiering”. This is a chapter that I will continue to go back to because I’m still a little unsure of how to effectively make adjustments to a course or assignment. Some students might just need a time extension rather than an adjustment to the complexity of a lesson or unit. The list of things to take away in order to decrease the complexity of a lesson was really helpful for me to read and help me to understand the concept of tiering a little better. I’m sure once I go into the teaching field that I will tier lessons without even realizing it. My favorite part of this chapter was the section describing how to create a learning menu. The learning menu seems like such a cute and fun idea. It also seems very effective because students have a choice in the work they do. I’d like to use something similar to a learning menu in my classes.