Indicator

II. A. 4

Learners engage in supplemental learning tasks ** OR** none are needed to fill the time allocated for learning.

Supplemental learning tasks are activities that learners do to extend and enhance learning and should not be "busy work" or more of the same.

Classroom Examples

Elementary

In a third-grade class, learners who finish assigned learning tasks early proceed to select activities related to current units of study such as writing a reflective piece, engaging in silent reading, or choosing to work in a learning center. The teacher monitors to ensure that all learners are engaged in relevant learning tasks.

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Elementary

In a first-grade language arts class, learners work on a lesson to identify nouns. The teacher has two class assignments for learners to work on individually. Learners who finish ahead of time immediately move to a center where they use magazines to cut out pictures of nouns and paste them according to person, place, or thing. The teacher displays the completed papers as a review for the class.

Secondary

1. In an eighth-grade social studies class studying a unit on the Holocaust, learners write an essay on being a teenager at Auschwitz. Early finishers move to a reading center that includes poetry, photo books, and CD-ROMS on the Holocaust. Learners select one of the above to support the essay.
 
2. In a tenth-grade algebra class, learners work on the assigned problems and then, upon completion, choose from a menu of other challenging algebra problems.