Tiered Activities - Notes

Tiered activities are useful when a teacher wants to ensure that students with different degrees of learning proficiency work with the same essential ideas and use the same key knowledge and skills. 

Using Tiered Activities

Using tiered activities allows all students to focus on essential knowledge, understandings, and skills, but at different levels of complexity, abstractness, open-endedness, and independence. By keeping the focus of the activity the same but providing routes of access at varying degrees of difficulty, the teacher maximizes the likelihood that each student comes away with pivotal skills and understandings and all students are appropriately challenged.