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The Art & Science of Differentiated Instruction:

Secondary

Diane Graves

Secondary Teacher Consultant

SD38

dgraves@sd38.bc.ca

Learning Intentions

Recognize and build upon the ways we are already responding to the diversity in our classrooms

Increase our skills with lesson design that takes into account our students, the content, and the skills needed to access the content

What motivates our kids?

http://www.youtube.com Daniel Pink

After viewing this, turn to a partner and share something that stood out for you.“Say Something”

How might this relate to our classes?

Fear of failure can only motivate students who have

a pattern of success.Charlotte Danielson, 2002

Where does ‘intrinsic motivation’ come from?

Self efficacyBelieving in yourself as a learner

Effective Feedbackand the chance to act

upon it

‘Locus of control’Having some control over factors

that influence your success

IntrinsicMotivation

Achievement

Anticipation Guide: Differentiation is… Agree/Disagree

A different lesson plan for every studentThe resource teacher’s responsibilityLower expectations for student outcomesMore work for staffIs a mindset not a procedureflexible groupingsRequires the teacher to know their students and

their contentIs a proven method for increasing student

performanceDone on the spotOnly for kids with IEPs.

Differentiated Instruction is…

An approach to teaching and learning that gives students multiple options:

For taking in informationFor making sense of ideasFor presenting ideasFor being evaluated on their learning

Readiness Interests Learning Profile

Keeping in Mind Students'...

Readiness

the complexity of thinking skills required, or the background knowledge available.

not constant across the curriculumdetermined by diagnostic or formative

assessments, pretests, KWL charts, etc…

Interests

what the student is interested inif students’ interests are considered,

there will be greater motivation and self-direction

can be determined by interest inventories, and by including students in the planning process.

Learning Profile

learning modalities or environmental preferences

can be determined by surveys of multiple intelligences, visual/auditory/kinesthetic modalities, environmental preferences (noise, lighting, seating, grouping, etc.)

How do we Know?

Pre-assessments -Assessment for Learning (AFL)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Multiple Intelligence

Class Profiles - not individual student ones

Teaching

Assessing

Learning

Latin root of Latin root of assessment assessment is “assidere,” meaning to is “assidere,” meaning to “sit beside.”“sit beside.”

We need to begin with the end in mind. Otherwise we & our students can get lost along the way.

Content Product Process

Teachers can differentiate...

ProductOn your own, reflect on your summative

assessment practices (Assessment of Learning):What are the varying ways you grade your

students learning?Do you give student’s choice in how they

represent their learning? Do you have a “default” method: essay, lab

report, test, etc…?Does your summative piece align with your

learning intentions for that lesson/unit?

Product

The evidence of learningThere are many ways for students to “show

what they know”Not all products need be summativeChoices may be offered in:

• Various types of formative/summative assessments, with corresponding rubrics

• Test-taking accommodations

Examples of differentiating product:student choice of mode of demonstrating

learningvaried rubrics for different productsGraphic Organizer to support thinkingtiered assignments for summative

assessmentadapting test-taking (allow for scribes,

readers, larger fonts, fewer questions, etc.)inquiry assignments, independent study

Triangulation of Data: Classroom Assessment

Valid & Reliable Picture of Student

Achievement

Performance task

Oral defense/

conference

Written test data

“Making choices is like lifting weights. The more frequently students choose from a group

of options the thicker their ‘responsibility muscles’

become.”

Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

Thomas Armstrong

Pause & Reflect

What can I let go of? What can I let go of? Be specific:Be specific:Activities, marking, Activities, marking, etc…etc…

Hopefully we aren’t feeling this way…

http://www.youtube.com

Accessing the Content

Content

Curriculum Standards & Content: Knowledge, Skill or Concept?

Varying Text Levels - Data bases like EBSCO & World Book - easier or more challenging

Pacing - Slow Learning = Deep Learning

Arc (Set BC) Kurzweil ($$$) Word Tools for Reading:

Auto-Summarize Adobe (pdf) Tools for

Reading: Text to Speech Digital Text Book (Adobe

Product) Online Tutors Online Oral readings

Process

Instructional Design Pre-Learning

Anticipation SetsAccessing Background

Knowledge During Learning

Process, DiscussApplicationBuilt upon Gradual

Release Post Learning

Personalize & Transform

Purposeful linking oftext structure and/or thinking skills withInstructional approach.

Time to Practice

Science 8 curriculum - lesson sequencing example

Linking text structure, thinking skills and content with instructional approach

Overriding Questions

How can I support those students who may struggle with reading and/or organizing their thinking?

How can I engage those students who are above grade level?

Teacher Planning for Learning from Text

End goal is to have students understand the relationship between what is a threat to our Immune System and how it protects us.

Cause & Effect Text StructureVerbal & Graphic Organizers to support

comprehension & thinking

Deductive and Inductive Thinking/Reasoning/Logic

In order to differentiate, I need to understand the skills needed to learn the content so that I can scaffold student learning.

GeneralTo Specific

Specific to Broader

Deductive Inductive

Bloom’s& ProcessingSkills

Accessing Background Knowledge - ConnectingTalk to a neighbour.

What do you see? What might these 2 images have in common with

each other? How might they be connected to what we could study

in Science?

What do these have in common?

DestroyBloodPusVertebratesFluid

InflammationInvadersDefensesMucuscancer

What do you think we will be studying next?

Our Immune System is an intricate weave of defense mechanisms. What is the most effective/important component in this system?

Instructional Design During Stage - Gradual Release

Knowledge - connect to personal experience to uncover

Skills - use graphic organizer to scaffold Inductive thinking and

comprehension of textConcept - Immune System

Strategies implemented to support student learning

Fish Bone - Cause & Effect text and concept structure

Read Aloud - C&E, Key Ideas & supporting details partner work to practice - Ping PongIndependent practice with feedback - Ping

Pong

Product - Answer Inquiry question using

Fishbone, Mind Map or a Concept Mapcompacting the curriculum for students who

have mastered the concepts

Establish criteria with classNeed to have taught these before you use them with new content and/or evaluate it summatively.

Extension Activity

Using either a Fishbone, Mind or Concept Map Graphic Organizer, indicate all the components.

Indicate in your organization what are strengths and what are weaknesses.Indicate hierarchy amongst the 2

categories

“Too often, educational tests, grades and report cards are treated by teachers as autopsies when they should be viewed as physicals.”

Douglas Reeves, 2002

ApplyingTo yourPersonalPractice

Graphic Organizer Samples & Rubrics

Take a few minutes to look at some of the student samples.

How do Graphic Organizers allow for student choice, differentiation, and addressing diverse multiple intelligences?

How might you use Graphic Organizers in your own practice to support student learning?

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1. Introduce using a task students are familiar with. Post criteria to remind students what is important.

2. Explain the purpose of Criteria Ping-Pong - “Your brain can do a better job when it gets useful and immediate information. I’m going to walk around and tell you what I notice you are doing. I will say one thing and then you will say another thing that you have done. We go back and forth.

3. Read criteria to the class and then as they work, play “criteria ping-pong” with as many as you can.

4. Reread criteria to students who are having trouble starting - ask them to identify one thing for you to see when you return to play “criteria ping-pong”.

Before & After Traffic LightsBefore & After Traffic LightsScienceScience 8 QuickTime™ and a

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AfterCan do statementsBefore

I can explain what threatens

Our Immune System

I can identify & describe the 2

Levels of defense

I can tell others what causes

Pus to form.

Comments:

Highlight and Hand InHighlight and Hand In QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Explain purpose of the self-assessment - essential part of being an effective learner.

Demonstrate activity using a task students are familiar with and have criteria for.

Display an anonymous sample of work on an overhead projector.Use a highlighter or pen to circle specific evidence where it has met criteria. Think aloud as you do this!

Ask students to highlight evidence of meeting criteria on their work (first drafts).

Ask them to make any additions or changes at any time during “highlight” and “hand-in”. Invite them to share any changes they have made.Have students hand in work. Assess work in relation to agreed upon criteria by placing a check mark in the column: Met or Not Yet Met.

Resources

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new

landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust