How Do We Choose a Sub Group that is Right for Our Grade?

In your teacher team meeting creating a sub group can be easy. Start by deciding how many students you want to target, 5, is a nice small number to begin with. Let's talk about Kindergarten! Kindergarten has 19 students with IEP's and 12 students that are ELL's. In order for Kindergarten to decide upon a sub group we might consider these two groups of children. From these two groups we may find students that fall into both categories. If the students that satisfy both criteria (IEP and ELL) equal 5, you have made your target group. What do you do if your are still left with a group larger than 5? Consider additional subgroups. Some considerations may be high attendance percentage, economically disadvantaged, ELA performance, etc.