Facilitate multiple learning streams simultaneously.
Strategies:
- Share learning objectives with students
- Share unit or lesson map with students
- Establish a minimum pace for completing activities/assignment
- Provide materials that enable independent, self-paced work such as adaptive digital content or learning menus
- Develop structures for students to request help when working independently on their learning objectives
Learning menus
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Objectives for the day
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Blendspace adaptive digital content
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Students independently progress through learning objectives at their own paces.
Strategies:
- Students choose to re-watch, re-listen to, or even skip content as needed
- Students have opportunities to self-manage their time as they progress through multiple activities or assignments and learning objectives.
Build structures to monitor individual and collective progress.
Strategies:
- Structures for students to monitor their own progress such as individual tracking worksheets or a unit objective checklist or rubric
- Wall charts or trackers to show progress of students
- Digital class trackers
- 1:1 progress check-ins
- Individual student performance data will determine learning activities and pace.
Data Wall Track for Academic and Attendance
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Data Wall Tracker for Spelling
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Progress Check with Seesaw
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Articles
Use Flexible Pacing to Embrace Student Differences- a blog on ASCD
Flexibly Paced Learning- on ReDesign
Pacing Needs to Be Flexible if Learning is to Happen- an article by Starr Sackstein on Education Week Teacher
Differentiation in the Classroom-7 Methods of Differentiation- ResourceEd by Promethean
Flexibly Paced Learning- on ReDesign
Pacing Needs to Be Flexible if Learning is to Happen- an article by Starr Sackstein on Education Week Teacher
Differentiation in the Classroom-7 Methods of Differentiation- ResourceEd by Promethean
Flexible Pacing Mini-lesson
Videos