"A Diamond Nine Diagram helps to prioritise and categorise key factors. The most important factors are placed towards the top of the "diamond 9 ". The least important factors are placed towards the bottom. Factors of equal importance are placed in the same row. Each factor can be colour coded for further sophistication."
Class tools provide an interactive version of the template, allowing you to change the colour of the boxes and move each around as much as you like. There are also many templates available on-line.
Potential uses
- Whole school priorities - at my school we have been using the diamond 9 to communicate our school priorities with all of our staff. We prioritised our RAP priorities and have displayed them around the school for all to see in a simple and usable format.
- Literacy - persuasive arguments. I have recently been discussing deforestation with my children and looking at the reasons for and against. As part of their planning for a persuasive letter they have been using a diamond 9 format to prioritise their arguments which will then be used to inform the structure of paragraphs.
- Maths - Equivalents
Diamond 9 fractions and decimals sort
- Justifying reasons
- Prioritising individual targets, class gap filling objectives