However, for those in
lower ability groups, it can enable the subject to be taught much more intensively.
As a parent of kids who are brilliant at mathematics, spatial thinking, technology and creativity, please please fight grammar streaming in schools as these really clever kids end up working in
lower ability groups.
Lower ability groups love the repetition, whilst for higher ability it saves huge amount of time as I don't have to reteach the basics each year, as they are covered in starters.
Extremely useful for
lower ability groups as well - students who are unlikely to produce coherent, revisable notes themselves and benefit massively from this structure.
can be used with
lower ability groups for a complete lesson, or spilt up and used with higher ability groups as activities within lesson or homeworks.
A differentiated version of the Antarctic Leaflet activity for
lower ability groups with first sentences provided.
Elements and Electron configuration match up A match up activity for
lower ability groups - match the element to its electron configuration.
Everything needed, including extra challenges to stretch the top end or step by step support for
lower ability groups.
This is a worksheet aimed at Year 8
low ability groups to revise food.
Designed for
a lower ability group as an introduction to the play.
It works well with
a lower ability group as a filler, revision or cover lesson.
Introduction lesson for
a low ability group on wealth and poverty (this focuses on wealth and poverty in the context of the UK rather than the world)
I have found this exercise particularly effective with
low ability groups and pupils with SEN as a revision exercise with a focus on accuracy.
This would be a useful task with younger groups or
low ability groups.
This was a pitched at a middle to
low ability group and I was really impressed at how easily they got it.
This is for
a lower ability group aiming for a C.
With this resource you will find 3 different worksheets (eight exercises in total) aim at
low ability groups.
This is a project that I ran successfully with a year 11
lower ability group, but is designed to be easily differentiated for use with higher ability GCSE groups and KS3 groups of all years.
This is a differentiated lesson for
lower ability group.
It is an introductory lesson to electricity, and this resource can be used for any group, but is mainly made with
a low ability group in mind.
Can be a whole lesson for
a lower ability group, or you can quickly flick thr...
It was designed for a very
low ability group, hence why the sources are very simply worded.
worksheet can be adapted for a higher or
lower ability group - differentiate quotes etc for differentiation
A lesson plan is available from
the lower ability group, and you should be able to figure out what happens in the higher ability group from the powerpoint.
If you were to run this investigation with
a lower ability group you may like to use the polygon worksheets but to get them to draw their own results table.
Not exact matches
The addition of a front - of - pack label increased both
groups»
ability to discriminate between products with high and
low sodium, while the Traffic Light label enabled better identification of the high - sodium product.
One is a
group with extremely high work rates the other is a
group of player with extremely high
ability but
low DEFENSIVE work rate.
Scores for externalization (the
ability to express feelings, especially negative feelings), a trait associated with risk of juvenile delinquency, academic failure, and inadequate social adjustment, were 20 percent
lower in the KMC
group on average.
Abiraterone's
ability to
lower levels of prostate - specific antigen, a surrogate marker for prostate cancer, was slightly greater for patients in the
low - dose with food
group when measured at 12 weeks.
People with
low cognitive
ability tended to express prejudice towards
groups perceived as liberal and unconventional (e.g., atheists, gays and lesbians), as well as
groups of people perceived as having
low choice over
group membership (e.g., ethnic minorities).
Cognitive
ability, whether high or
low, only predicts prejudice towards specific
groups.
Analyzing the results, the researchers found that people with both relatively higher and
lower levels of cognitive
ability show approximately equal levels of intergroup bias, but towards different sets of
groups.
Low - weight, high - repetition training also helps you improve muscular endurance, or the
ability of a muscle (or
group of muscles) to repeatedly exert force against resistance.
There was also a penalty to pay for the increased fat burning: the «
low»
group didn't increase their carbohydrate - burning
abilities as much as the control
group:
What makes the Total Gym XLS special is the
ability to strengthen and tone every major muscle
group in the upper and
lower body as well as the abdominal area.
Test of transfer (long - term): Loturco et al. (2015) compared the effects of high - velocity and a
low - velocity jump squat training programs on the same zig - zag COD test as described above, and found that the high - velocity
group tended to improve COD
ability by more than the
low - velocity
group.
As reported by Tes, a new paper from the British Educational Research Association states that schools are continuing to teach pupils in
groups based on their
ability despite research indicating that this is not in the best interest of
lower -
ability pupils.
My students LOVED it; I've used it with all of my year 7 Computing
groups as a fun end of term lesson AND with my
lower ability year 9 Computer Science GCSE
group as an ice breaker introductory lesson to programming basics.
Teacher constructions of students in
lower attainment
groups in English secondary schools, the
ability grouping technique is likely limiting for students learning at a
low - attaining level.
While mixed
ability teaching has been held up as the way to go, it has not been overly successful for students in the very high and very
low achieving
groups.
The authors cite this as an example of «how a student's placement in the
lowest attainment
group results in misrecognition whereby his / her placement in the attainment
grouping hierarchy can be interpreted by teachers as reflecting the student's innate «
ability».
Overall, the report suggests that
ability groups may be inhibiting
low - attaining students» future learning progress.
Produced for
lower ability Key Stage 2
group but could be used elsewhere.
This is a KS3 on earthquakes however, it can adapted for a
low ability GCSE
group.
I made it for
lower ability Y6 but could easily be adapted for any
ability group.
Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and
low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of
ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.
The lesson was created for a high abiity year 7 set and I have therefore also attached an atlas challenge for
lower ability / younger
groups.
A meta - analysis comparing small -
group work to individual work in K - 12 and college classrooms also found that students working in small
groups achieved significantly more than students working individually, and optimal
groups for learning tended to be three - to four - member teams with
lower -
ability students working best in mixed
groups and medium -
ability students doing best in homogeneous
groups.
This worksheet is for a high -
ability group, but could be easily adapted for
lower sets.
Originally used for a
lower ability year 9
group as part of a literacy unit, this would suit KS3 students as part of a letter writing scheme of work.