The gap between students is growing, with student ability in one classroom now likely to span five or more grade levels in Language Arts, with an even greater range of ability in math (Rambo-Hernandez et al., 2022).
How does a teacher meet the needs of a class of 5th graders reading from a 1st grade to a 9th grade level?
In her book, Emily L. Mofield has compiled a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to that question in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students: 25 Strategies to Stretch Student Thinking. Almost any classroom teacher will find this useful…
Check out my take on Mofield’s excellent collection of tips here.
And thanks to the editors for publishing my review in Middleweb!
Resources
Rambo-Hernandez, K.E. et al. (2023). How Academically-Diverse is the “Grade-Level” Classroom? Open Science Framework. https://osf.io/89fvn/
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