1. Who Are Your Students?
Heacox
Chapter 2

2. Why Differentiate?
“The goal of differentiating instruction is to increase the likelihood that students will be successful learners.”
(p. 21)

3. Discovering Your Students
Academic History
Student Interests
Multiple Intelligences

4. Getting the Academic History
Cumulative records
-Standardized test scores
-Academic strengths and weaknesses
Portfolios
-Standardized scores vs. performance
-Basic skill tests
*see Student Learning Profile pages 27-28

5. Student Interests Interest Inventory (see pages 29-31) Index Cards
1. List subjects of interest
2. List a subject they’d like to learn about
3. List topics they know a lot about

6. Multiple Intelligences
Get to know how your students learn
using “Projects, Presentations, and
Performances” (p )

7. Gardner’s Eight Intelligences
Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Visual/Spatial
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
See page 37 for explanations

8. Involving Families Multiple Intelligences Checklist (pp. 38-39)
Sample Letter to Parents (p. 42)

9. Finding Out What Students Know
Pre-assessments and Pretests
KW: Know, Want to Know
Grade Book or Class Record Book
Professional Observations
Conferences

10. Questions for Conferencing
What’s going well for _______?
What’s difficult for him or her?
What was a high point for ______ this semester?
What concerns do you have about _______’s progress in school?