Adaptive Grouping Learning of National Junior High School Program(2015-2022)
Adaptive Grouping Q&A
Origin of the Program
In order to enhance the learning effectiveness of the low-achieved students, the Ministry of Education has promoted many remedial teaching programs in national elementary as well as junior high schools over the years. In particular, teachers of junior high school are faced with students who have already had a learning gap at the elementary school level, and the abstract and structural nature of mathematics at the junior high school level make it difficult to differentiate instruction in the classroom. The goal of improving students’ learning effectiveness is still to be achieved because of the longer learning time, the low willingness of students to learn, the appropriateness of teaching materials, and the effectiveness of teaching.
Underachieving students have limited learning in at least four mathematics lessons per week, and the additional remedial curriculum significantly compresses the time for students to rest and recharge and adaptive development, and its effectiveness is limited. In addition, the additional remedial curriculum places an additional burden on the field teachers, making it common for schools to use intern teachers for remedial instruction. Therefore, this project considers developing mathematical activities that are suitable for students who are lagging behind in their learning in order to conduct effective remedial teaching in the classroom; and further evaluating the effectiveness of remedial teaching in the classroom with two main axes: students’ mathematical learning and teachers’ professional development.
Program Goals
1. To create a teaching video on the integration of reading into construction activities for grades 7, 8, and 9.
2. To develop the differentiated teaching skills of district specialist teachers.
3. To provide workshops on differentiated teaching in different districts.
4. Understand and refine the teaching of participating teachers through instructional coaching.
5. Analyze student performance in each school and provide feedback.
6. Provide guidance to mathematics teachers in participating schools to improve the quality of section examination questions.
Expected Results
1. To promote the concept of “appropriate remediation in the classroom” to complement the “Foundation Activities” originally promoted by the Ministry of Education, so as to provide more complete assistance to students who are not well prepared for mathematics learning and to gradually carry out intra-class differentiation.
2. Assist teachers in developing professional knowledge necessary for teachers in the 21st century, such as the use of digital learning tools, differentiated instruction, and personalized learning.
3. To revise, on a rolling basis, the materials and resources related to mathematics construction activities and reading-based enjoyment classes that meet the 2019 syllabus.
4. Evaluate and counsel mathematics teachers on the enhancement of differentiated instruction.
5. Long-term evaluation of changes in student performance in the “Adaptive Grouping (Pull-out Model)” and “Adaptive Grouping (Integrated Model)”.
Participants
◆Program facilitator
Yang, Kai-Lin: Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University
◆Co-facilitator
Wu, Chao-Jung: Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University
Lin, Kuo-Yuan: Principal of Yuli Junior High School in Hualien County
◆Consulting Professor
Cheng, Ying-Hao: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Taipei City University
Su, Yi-Wen: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Taipei City University
◆Consulting Teachers
Wu, Ming-Chu: Curriculum Inspector of Yilan County National Education Guidance Group
Lu, Hung-Yi: Teacher of Taipei City Chung Lun High School
Su, Hui-Yu: Teacher of Taipei City Xisong High School
Lin, Tung-Hsing: Retired Principal of Huagang Junior High School, Hualien County
Ke, Yen-Ting: Teacher at Luodong Junior High School in Yilan County
Shih, Hung-Chieh: Teacher at Dongguang Junior High School in Yilan County
Lin, Li-Chiu: Teacher at Fuli Junior High School in Hualien County
Lin Ai-Chun: Teacher at Ruisui Junior High School in Hualien County
Li, Chin-Fu: New Taipei City Municipal Fu and Junior High School teacher (reading textbook lead author)
Chien, Yu-Ching: Teacher at Lifu and Junior High School in New Taipei City (lead author of reading materials)
Lu, Yu-Mei: Teacher of New Taipei City Lifuhe Junior High School (the main author of the reading material)
Hung, Chieh-Hsing: Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University (construction activity designer, suggested and edited by the consulting team)
Chen, Chia-Yang: Master student at the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University (construction activity designer, then suggested and edited by the consulting team)
Kang, Ching-Kun: Master student in the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University (the main author of the reading materials, and then suggested and edited by the consulting team)