1. The Science of Differentiation
Cheryl Conley
2011 Florida Dept. of Education Teacher of the Year
Teachers in differentiated classrooms are students
of their students!

2. Why Differentiate?

3. Brain Compatibility

4. Brain Compatibility

5. Brain Compatibility

6. Brain Compatibility

7. How Do We Differentiate?

8. Differentiating Content
Reading Partners / Reading Buddies
Read/Summarize
Read/Question/Answer
Visual Organizer/Summarizer
Parallel Reading with Teacher Prompt
Choral Reading/Antiphonal Reading
Flip Books
Split Journals (Double Entry – Triple Entry)
Books on Tape
Highlights on Tape
Digests/ “Cliff Notes”
Note-taking Organizers
Varied Texts
Varied Supplementary Materials
Highlighted Texts
Think-Pair- Share/Preview-Midview- Postview
Tomlinson -’00

9. Differentiating Product
Choices based on readiness, interest, and learning profile
Clear expectations
Timelines
Agreements
Product Guides
Rubrics
Evaluation

10. ACTIVITY
Dichotomous Key

11. THINK - TAC - TOE Draw and Label the planets in the solar system.
List one fact about each planet.
Illustrate and describe the two types of planets.
Describe how the planets travel around the Sun.
STUDENT CHOICE
Describe the only planet that we have been able to travel to.
Write a paragraph about dwarf planets.
Draw a picture of what it might look like is we landed on a new planet.
Write a rap about your favorite planet.

12. Cubing
Offer a different task at varying degrees of difficulty on each side of the cube.

13. RAFT--ing R - role A - audience F - format T - topic Role Audience
Ozone Layer
Pollution
Persuasive Letter
Depletion of
The Ozone Layer
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thank You note
Black History
Month
Vegetables
Pizza
Song
How we help the body
Anne Frank
Student
Diary Entry
World War II
Dog
Goldfish
Poem
What makes us different
R - role
A - audience
F - format
T - topic

14. Character Map
Character Name____________
How the character looks
____________
How the character thinks or acts
____________
Most important thing to know about the character
_______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ ______________________

15. Character Map Character Name____________
What the character says or does
____________
What the character really MEANS to say or do
____________
What the character would mostly like us to know about him or her _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________

16. Character Map Character Name____________
Clues the author gives us about the character
____________
Why the author gives THESE clues
____________
The author’s bottom line about this character _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _________

17. My Appointment Clock bring to class each day.
Round the Clock Learning Buddies My
Appointment Clock
Make an appointment with 12 different people – one for each hour on the clock. Be sure you both record the appointment on your clocks. Only make the appointment if there is an open slot at that hour on both of your clocks.
Tape this paper inside a notebook, or to something that you will
bring to class each day.

18. Other Ideas Bingo Cards Menus I Have --- Who Has --- Think Pair Share
Using Technology

19. Allows for Differentiation
Poster
Yourself
Allows for Differentiation
Student by Student

20. Voki or Blabberize
Museum Box

21. Create a Website, Blog or Song iTunes, Audacity, http://20dollarbeats

22. Venn Diagrams, Questions of the Day,
Venn Diagrams, Questions of the Day,
Timelines, Organizing

23. Websites I love:
(to search technology in the classroom)
(in the classroom, student interactives)

24. ACTIVITY
The Great Fossil Find

25. DUMP YOUR BRAIN Students participating in a "Dump your Brain"
activity.
Something you Learned Today
Favorite new activity
How could you see yourself using these ideas?
How is the Spaghetti Tower Like Teaching?