APPLYING THE PROCESS OF DESIGNING TIERED ASSIGNMENTS IN DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION FOR TEACHERS OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN HANOI

At primary schools in Vietnam currently, the application of differentiated instruction has increasingly developed and implemented in a number of different forms, one of which is the tiered assignments. However, the reality of designing tiered assignments in differentiated instruction in primary education has not achieved the desired results. One of the main reasons is that teachers rely on personal experience, have not been properly guided and trained on the step-by-step scientific process in designing assignments during the teaching process. Based on the analysis of research from 576 managers and teachers of six primary schools in Hanoi, the author therefore organized and trained teachers to apply the 7-steps process to design the tiered assignments in Grade 4 Science and Grade 5 Mathematics, which provides initial results in the teachers’ product as well as students’ learning outcomes.