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Veronica Garrido. Date: 6/16; The collection of activities presented by Mrs. Hong today are really helpful. I now have perfectly clear the difference between Differentiated Instruction and Tier instruction after learning that for Tier activities you have to have very clear your goal for the whole group and from them divide the class according to the students' readiness. The activity where we had to find Similarities, Differences and silence parts in a task was very important to me because it made me realize how I have to modify certain activities for my class.

Norman Kao – week 2-3, energizer and product possibilities are the two I will be able to use it very easily. Energizer is ideal for time filler or break after a long session. The use of the various learning modalities should be kept in mind while planning my lessons. Great day again.

Jie Ding: I like the "Engergizer" activity. It is a helpful activity that stimulates both the mind and the body and can really refresh the students during class. I will adopt this method when teaching subjects such as directions and actions in Chinese.

Jia Jia: Energizer Activity is a good exercise for body and brain. I think it could be used in the beginning of the class as Ms. Hong did today and also when children look a little tired. We talked "tiering" in my previous teaching, but Ms. Hong gave us more specific ideas and watching-outs in today's training. Also, I really liked Ms. Hong's examples about her children to demonstrate how to apply the knowledge or strategies she taught.

Amy Hilbert—Day 8—6/16: I appreciate our classmate’s idea on making two types of admit tickets: the regular and a special one. It’s a very useful way to acquire more information about our students’ learning (and motivation). Mrs. Hong’s presentation of the energizer activity will be a great tool for me to use to provide students with a sensory break as well as practice with multi-step directions. I also appreciated the practice in developing the more complex task (tighten it activity) because it’s so easy to fall into the trap of giving extra work that may not be centered around the learning objective/concept.
 * Shelley week2 Day 3 ** : “Energizer," what a great idea! I am so glad that I know how, when and where to use it now. I can’t wait to use it for all my classes. I love the “Tiered” activates. Our class activities today have clearly demonstrated to me how it works and how it can be designed in an effective way to fit different levels students in the same class. I am also excited to realize the power of the concept of Patterns and Story Elements. Everyday is an exciting and new discovery day!!!

Grace Hu: I will use Energizer Activity when my students get restless or sleepy, especially for afternoon class. I love today's topic - Tiering, which gave me lots of ideas on when and how we can use this stratergy. As Ms. Hong said, one thing we need to pay attention is the product possibilities. For example, some assignments require more drawing/painting skills and some may require more reading and writing skills, every student's strength is also different; so when we design projects/assignments, we better think about student's strength and let everyone has an opportunity to shine or to be proud of themselves.

Amy Lu: I think I'm gonna use" Engergizer" activity on teaching Pinyin initials and finals, students can learn numbers and pinyin at the same time. Tiered Activity would be good for my Chinese heritage students.Thanks! Mrs.Hong.


 * Fang Liang-June 16: ** I like the book we read in class today. We can translate it into Chinese and read with our students. For Tiering, I learnt a lot and I think when we group our students, basing on their proficiency or level, if there are some sensitive students have the need to feel being treated fairly, maybe we can make it clear that this is a team work and every group deals with different parts so that we can pool our findings and thoughts together and make a bigger discovery. This may make them feel confident and comfortable enough to contribute to the task.

Frances Maisonet: I loved the more complex ENERGIZER activity. I'm going to modify it and use it in my classroom a lot. Now, I understand better what tearing means and how to differentiate the activities (more complex, just right or less complex). I hope tomorrow I can learn what the best choice with the high level students that always finished their work earlier than the rest of the class.

Fang Yuan: Tiered Activity is a great idea for differentlevel students. This theory can be used by math, story, and another subjects. Before we plan More Complex Task, Just Right Task, and Less complex Task, we need to know our students very well. This theory and the Differentiated Instruction should be used together.

Chaoqiong Wang: I love the Tiered Activity very much. This theory give me a lot of ideas for my teaching. The Product Possibilities, Visual, Auditory, Writing and Kinesthetic can be used in our learning. Thank you!

Ying Wang: This session on Tiering really cleared my mind on what Tiering is and how to do Tiering. It is not IEP and it does not have to be done daily. I reflected on my teaching practice, and realized that I acturally did Tiering with the students but I did not realize that what I did was Tiering. It's very interesting to connet the practice with theory. The book that we read on the powerpoint was a really inspiring book for us educators.

Qiongzi Wang:今天学习了关于tiering的教学理念，很有启发！真的理解了为什么给同样的内容，也可以有Differetiate instruction.那本在课堂的上看过的动画书真的很有意思！谢谢你！

 Wanbing Zhang: Complex Energizer taking a rest 123…

Zhe Zhang: The idea of tiering, to design questions of different levels for different students based on their readiness, is very helpful for me. My classroom is always a mixture of beginners and Chinese heritage students. I have been looking for a good way to keep those heritage students from feeling too bored. Today’s presentation inspired me a lot. I should keep in mind that tiering does not mean extra work for particular group of students, all students should learn the same concept, and at the same time, it is very important to make sure the grouping is invisible.

Yanni Sun: Tiered activity is very useful for teacher to approach same concept in different levels. It keeps everyone involve the activity in their understanding the meanings, no one left out the discussion.

Belinda Liu-today, I learned some details about Tiering strategies. From the story, I think as teachers, we really need to meet individual student needs.