Tag: Strategies for differentiation

What is the organization’s name, mission, vision, and your best guess for what its business-level strategy is (e.g. cost leadership, differentiation, niche)?Are you still interested in/would you want to work for this organization? Why or why not?

Pick an organization you are interested in and/or want to work for and write a 2 page memo answering the following questions:

What is the organization’s name, mission, vision, and your best guess for what its business-level strategy is (e.g. cost leadership, differentiation, niche)?

What kind of organizational structure does the organization have?

Describe it using the four building blocks of structure (all four!)
Provide some proof (org. charts are one good example)

Knowing what you now know about the pros/cons of the various structural dimensions – is there a fit between the organization’s mission/vision/strategy and the structure of the organization? Why or why not?

Are you still interested in/would you want to work for this organization? Why or why not?

What are the advantages of using a three-phase lesson plan model? Briefly describe the phases in your explanation.Imagine you have opened up your textbook and read the following story problem: Dani’s room is 12 feet by 11 feet. How many square carpet tiles will she need to carpet her room?

Module 6 Problem Solving Set

1. What are the advantages of using a three-phase lesson plan model? Briefly
describe the phases in your explanation.(5 points)

2. Imagine you have opened up your textbook and read the following story
problem: Dani’s room is 12 feet by 11 feet. How many square carpet tiles will she
need to carpet her room?

Apply one of the strategies for differentiation (open questions, tiered lesson, and
parallel tasks) to adapt this task. Be specific in your description and labeling. (5
points)

3. What is the difference between formative and summative assessments? Give
examples of each. How do you plan to use both in your classroom? Be specific.

Refer to the readings and the videos in your explanations (5 points)

4. Summarize the sections from Principles to Actions, discuss the big ideas in each
section (10 points)?

1. Support Productive Struggle

2. Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Thinking

3. Assessment