âEvery success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.â
I’m beginning to understand Tabor Rotation, but what are readiness groups and why are they important?
The Tabor Rotation Framework asks teachers to flexibly group students in a variety of ways. Each week includes partner work, whole-group instruction, teachable moments with individual students, small group work with students of mixed abilities, and working with small groups of students who are grouped together according to their level of understanding of the concepts that are being explored that week.…
âDreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. ” Edgar Cayce
Many educators, who have attended my workshops concerned with simplifying small-group, differentiated instruction in mathematics using the Tabor Rotation Framework, have submitted questions. Before the year is over, my goal is to respond to as many of these questions as possible.…
âI canât ever go back to teaching difficult concepts to the whole group. Quite frankly, by the time I finished passing out manipulatives to the class and monitored their use, I just wanted to collect them and end the lesson. Small groups are a gift to my students.â…
Have you heard this saying, âIf you fail to plan, then you plan to fail?â Or this one, âBad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.â Maybe Winnie-the-Pooh (as written by A. A. Milne) said it best, âOrganizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.â…
âOccasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.â -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Several teachers have written me asking about the scheduling of readiness groups and the vigor with which the readiness groups should be taught.…
One of the challenges teachers face when differentiating instruction is how to answer the questions that will arise when you begin to do what is best for all students. Because every student is unique in their understanding of concepts, their level of independence, their interests, and their learning style, what you do for each one must be different.…
âDonât believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and youâll see the way to fly.â -from the poem, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
âWhat we call differentiated is not a recipe for teaching.…
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didnât meet the needs of all their students.…
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” -Mother Teresa
When someone asks me what schools I’ve worked with during my career as an educational consultant, my answer is always, “the ones where you wouldn’t drive at night.” My heart is pulled to the teachers and students in these schools.…
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” -Thomas Henry Huxley
Iâve been receiving a lot of questions about Tabor Rotation (a highly successful, research-based strategy for rigorously differentiating instruction in mathematics) and how to implement the essential components of T.R.…
