Tailoring Tasks to Meet Students' Needs

Autor/inn/en	McDuffie, Amy Roth; Wohlhuter, Kay A.; Breyfogle, M. Lynn
Titel	Tailoring Tasks to Meet Students' Needs
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 16 (2011) 9, S.550-555 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Textbooks; Mathematics Instruction; Relevance (Education); Mathematics Teachers; Middle School Students; Lesson Plans; Mathematical Concepts; Reflection; Problem Solving; Teaching Methods; Learning Strategies; Reading Skills; Secondary School Mathematics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Relevance; Relevanz; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Problemlösen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit
Abstract	Just as ready-made clothes may not provide a perfect fit for all bodies, math lessons may not be a perfect fit for all students. Published instructional tasks, including problems in mathematics textbooks, often need to be tailored to be meaningful, relevant, or accessible to each student. Ways are possible to take high-level reasoning tasks and modify them to meet students' individual needs. The authors focus on what teachers can do to make sure that tasks are relevant and accessible for their own students. The authors have worked with middle-grade teachers (grades 5-8) across several research projects and encountered many examples of teachers successfully tailoring lessons to meet students' needs. In analyzing teachers' work, the authors found four categories of adaptation. In this article, they present each category of such tailoring and ask questions for teachers to consider. (Contains 2 tables.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10