Assessing for Differentiation
Tools and Tricks to help you differentiate your lessons.
When Do You Assess for Differentiation?
- Beginning of the Year
- Beginning of a new lesson/objective
- Every day- You'll be surprised how small interactions and observations can make a difference
Why Do You Assess for Differentiation?
- Student Readiness Level: Not Ready, Ready to Go, Ready to Go Beyond
- Student Learning Style: How do they learn best?
- Student Interest : What motivates them to learn?
Student Readiness
Student Readiness: Kahoot
Great way to assess all students' knowledge before a new lesson/objective and have immediate feedback. Plus it's fun for the students!
Student Readiness: Plickers
Another easy and fun way to assess when starting a new topic/objective.
Student Readiness: Easy CBM
A website that has premade quizzes for many different subjects. You can have the students take it online or print it out. It also has benchmark quizzes that can assess students' progress
Student Readiness: CLI Strategies
Exploding Atom and The Truth About Me are two great ways to assess students levels while incorporating a CLI Strategy. As the lesson takes place, you could make observations or take anecdotal notes about how students react to the lesson.
Student Readiness: Schoolnet Pretest
You can build a test using TEKS from SchoolNet. The test can be printed out or you can have the students take it online and it's graded for you.
Student Readiness: Formative Assessments
DRA (K-2)
TPRI (K-2)
TEMI (K-2)
ORF (3-6)
STAAR Benchmark (3-6)
Student Learning Survey
Primary Learning Survey
This survey has a lot of visuals. It can be done whole group, small group or one on one.
Learning Survey
This survey is great for 2nd grade and older.
Student Interest
Student Interest
- Daily Conversations with Students
- Daily Observations
- Building Relationships with the Students
- I Love You Rituals