1. Teaching Academically Diverse Learners
Module 5
Ryan/Cooper/Tauer, Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming a Master Teacher

2. Defining Intelligence
One ability or many?
Mental capacities
To acquire knowledge?
To apply knowledge?

3. IQ IQ-based intelligence tests Calculates “mental age”
Binet developed original test
Today Stanford-Binet, Weschler tests
Calculates “mental age”
Compared to chronological age

4. Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Analytical
Verbal, mathematical, logic, reasoning skills
Creative
Response to unfamiliar problems, new situations
Practical
Reading the environment and responding appropriately

5. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory
Verbal-linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Spatial
Bodily-kinesthetic
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist

6. Gifted and Talented Gifted Talented Excel in academic areas
Excel in areas outside of academics
Music
Sports
Art

7. Identifying Gifted and Talented Students
Tests
Cognitive ability
Achievement
Observations
Reports
Parents/guardians
Teachers
Other adults

8. Educating Gifted and Talented Students
Separate classes, schools
Individualized approaches
Meet specific student needs
No special programs; in regular classes
Acceleration
Enrichment

9. VAK Model of Learning Styles
Visual
Verbal-visual
Spatial-visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic

10. Experiential Learning Cycle
Concrete experience
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualization
Active experimentation

11. Kolb’s Theory of Learning Styles
Diverging
Concrete experience & reflective observation
Accommodating
Concrete experience & active experimentation
Assimilating
Abstract conceptualization & reflective observation
Converging
Abstract conceptualization & active experimentation

12. Differentiating Instruction
Content
Different approaches to same concepts, principles, skills (lecture, text, demo)
Process
Varying student activities, more or less support
Products
Different ways to demonstrate knowledge (paper, test, group project)

13. Ways to Differentiate Instruction
Stations
Compacting
Complex instruction
Choice boards
Problem-based learning
Entry points
Orbital studies