Chapter 5

Abstract:

Tiering Assessments:
This chapter was mainly about assessments and how they should be created in order to accommodate all levels of learning in order for more students to succeed. This chapter mentioned Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and how it says that students can be pushed if they are nurtured and safe in their environment. It is up to teachers to provide this environment and help students succeed. This chapter is also about assessing and describing intelligences in students. One of the first things it says is there is no test to determine exactly what type of intelligence every student is. The chapter then goes on to explain different ways you can find out what type of intelligences your students are and what way it is best to go about teaching them. The chapter also provides a check list to figure out which intelligence the student is more prone to.

Thoughts:

Logically it makes sense that once you know what type of intelligence you are most prone to you should try to find out what the majority of your students are as well. Knowing your students is key to understanding them and if you don't understand how they learn best it is not as likely that you will reach them and they will not respect you as much. As teachers we need to try to be as multi-faceted as possible because the more uni-faceted we are the more students we will not be able to educate. This chapter has some great ideas but there is a lot of them, Ideally it should all be applied but its hard to do that without all the tools that would be necessary.