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Curriculum Differentiation
“Teaching with the child in mind.” Caroline Tomlinson
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Differentiating Instruction is a method of planning and teaching that meets the needs of all students
Differentiation is unlike the traditional approach to teaching in which all students are expected to perform exactly the same
Differentiation
+ An Introduction to Differentiation
http://differentiationcentral.com/videos.html#introduction
Carol Ann Tomlinson is an English educator, author and speaker. She is best known for her innovative work with Differentiated instruction education techniques.
Differentiation of Instruction
Teacher Response to Learner’s Needs
RespectfulTasks
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Flexible Grouping
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Assessment &
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Instructional Elements to Differentiate
Content Process Product
Teachers Can Differentiate
Handout of examples
+ Definitions and Instructional Elements that can be Differentiated Content (Curriculum)
o Definition-What we want students to learn and the materials through which that is accomplished.
o Elements that can be differentiated-compacting, acceleration, meaningful enrichment, independent contracts. added rigor
Process ( Instruction)o Definition-The strategies and activities designed to ensure the students use
key skills to make sense out of essential ideas and information.o Elements that can be differentiated-tiered assignments, tic tac toe choice
menus, flexible grouping, exposure to experts, real-life simulations, themed interdisciplinary units, interest-based learning
Product (Assessment) o Definition-The vehicles through which students demonstrate and extend
what they have learned.o Elements that can be differentiated-choice menus, Bloom’s Taxonomy, take
to production level – debate, mock trials, Night of the Notables
+Suggestions onHow to Begin to Differentiate http://differentiationcentral.com/videos.html#journey
Starting is what matters!
+Differentiated InstructionGuides for Planning
Are you clear on what you want the student to know, understand, and be able to do?
Deciding on content-Have you thought about and selected?
Plans to pre-assess student readiness
Assigning students to groups
Creating differentiated activities
Creating assignments and differentiated products
Other thoughts
+Differentiating Instruction Strategies
Examples:StationsEntry PointsCompactingProblem Based LearningAgendasChoice BoardsComplex Instruction
+What does differentiation look like?
Differentiation in the primary classroom
First Steps for Differentiating at the H.S. level
Tips for Designing Tasks – Top Group First!
http://differentiationcentral.com/videos2.html#elementary
http://differentiationcentral.com/videos2.html#secondary
http://differentiationcentral.com/videos2.html#variouso Musico Foreign Languageo Vocational
+ Questioning-Different types of questions to employ and monitor in a lesson.
Focus on what is important.
Higher level questions produce deeper thinking.
Wait time is important.
Questions before and after learning.
Bob Marzano, “Cuing and questioning are at the heart of classroom practice. Research indicates that cuing and questioning might account for as much as 80% of what occurs in a given classroom on a given day.”
+ Types of Questions
Memory Question Stems: Who, what, when, where?Cognitive Operations: Naming, defining, and
identifying
Convergent Thinking Questioning Stems: Why, how, in what ways? Cognitive Operations: Explaining, comparing, contrasting
Divergent Thinking Question Stems: Imagine, suppose, predict, if/then, how might?Cognitive Operations: Predicting, hypothesizing, inferring
Evaluative Thinking Questions Stem: Defend, justify, judgeCognitive Operations: Valuing, judging,
justifying choices
+Web site for types of questions
http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit.html
+Differentiated Assessments
Explain assessment purpose
Be clear on expectations & directions
Provide a variety of ways for students to “show” what they “know”
Consider multiple intelligences & time
Emphasis on demonstrating competency
+Differentiated Test
Textbook series often have differentiated assessments in the teacher guides.
Software-Math IXL
Guidelines for Differentiated Test (See handout.)
Example-Cell Structure and Function
+ Tools for the Toolbox
• Internet 4 Classroomso http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
links_grades_kindergarten_12/tips_for_classroom_differentiated_instruction.htm
A Different Place o http://adifferentplace.org/classroom.htm
• Differentiation Central Lesson Planso http://differentiationcentral.com/resources.html
• Blair Mentor Web siteo http://www.blairschools.org/contentm/easy_pages/view.php?
page_id=685&sid=93&menu_id=35
• Hoagies Giftedo http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/
• Books in HAL Room
• Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century
Discover the Gifts…
If a child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns.
- Rita Dunn
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+Nebraska Association for the Gifted Conference
http://www.negifted.org/NAG/Spring_Conference.html
February 20-21, 2014