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Differentiation and Student Needs Teaching at an international school abroad, my primary concern for differentiation is the same as most everyone else- some students are native English speakers, others are ESL. This means that in one class in MYP, I can say entire paragraphs and almost one third of my class might not understand. This means that if I don't differentiate, some students will be completely lost, and become disruptive or disengaged as a result. However, to get into a DP in my school in Malaysia, students have to have succeeded at MYP, which means they were top performers in those grades. This winnows out almost all of the ESL students, although I'll still have 2 or 3 who struggle to follow along due to the difficulty of the content. Instead, my differentiation primarily takes the form of student preferences for learning- some students are skilled at research, others at presenting, etc. As my students are often from different countries, I'll also try to diff...

Articulating Outcomes, Thinking Like an Assessor Grade level, Subject My formative and summative assessment will continue to be based on DP1 language and literature, using "Lolita" as the template. Common Core Standards  Continuing from my previous post, the common core standard I will be examining will be the CCS12.6: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Formative assessment. I am making a number of assumptions for this- that students are familiar with a number of literary devices, that they have read at least the first half of the text, and that we have already spent a few classes examining Nabokov's style and the context of the 1950's. For I will divide students into groups of 4. Each person in the group is given a copy of the same two passages. One student each is assigned to underline and annotate one of the following literary devices. Allusion, imagery, unreliable nar...

Standards and Backwards Mapping Grade level, Subject For the last three years I was an English teacher for IB, teaching grades 10,11 and DP. I have chosen my highest level class as I have always preferred teaching more complex subject material, literary analysis over basics like grammar. As I currently have no idea what I will be teaching at my next position, I will use last years class as a template in an effort to improve my planning. Common Core Standards for grades 11-12 Lolita is a complex text to tackle, mostly because of the difficulties inherent in its narrators status as a literary professor who is trying to persuade his audience of his innocence. As a result, there is a cornucopia of literary references that students certainly have never read before that they will need to understand in order to interpret the nuance behind Humbert’s words and thoughts. This will require a strong understanding of multiple literary elements and challenge the student’s research s...