Build a Data Ladder with MAP

Here is a new level of using your MAP data to plan your instruction. Step by step, here we go:

1. Determine what you plan to teach. For example, you might decide, based on your general impressions of your data, that you want to work on Measurement.

2. Print the PGID or DesCartes for that strand.

3. Pick a skill. Follow that skill through the RIT bands and highlight them. Maybe you choose telling time, for example. (Hand courtesy of Kaye Peters.)

4. See which bands overlap or could easily be taught together. If you chose telling time, you might see how that progresses -- from the hour, to the half hour to the 5 minutes to the minute. Make groupings that feel good to you. Maybe it seems reasonable to group to the hour and to the half hour, and the one minute people need to go in a group alone. 

6. Think about what you already teach for this topic; it's likely that how you normally teach will reach some of the groups. This will help you think about how you will extend the lesson to reach everyone on both sides of "typical."

5. Then, look at the RIT bands for your kids in measurement. 

6. Place the kids on the appropriately highlighted strand, and yippee! You can now again think of what you have normally taught, and by looking at the RIT bands, determine where you might need differentiation.

7. Plan to extend/simplify/adapt what you teach to meet all the bands, so each kid can grow with this lesson.