2. Differentiated Instruction: One Size Doesn’t Fit All... Differentiation

3. Differentiated instruction enhances learning for all students by engaging them in activities that better respond to their particular learning needs strengths, and preferences. FIRST Differentiated instruction is a way of thinking about teaching and learning. It is also a collection of strategies that helps you better address and manage the variety of learning needs in your classroom. SECOND What is Differentiation?

4. Differentiation is a TWO-STEP Process Analyze the degree of challenge and variety in your current instructional plans. Modify, adapt, or design new approaches to instruction in response to students needs, interests, and learning preferences.

5. Cognitive Abilities Learning Profile Socioeconomic and Family Factors Learning Pace Gender Influences Cultural/Ethnic Influences Student Interests Diversity in the classroom…

6. WHAT do we differentiate? Content Concentrate on the most relevant and essential concepts, processes, and skills. Increase the complexity of learning. Process Reflects the learning profiles and preferences of your students Add greater complexity or abstractness to tasks, engage students in critical and creative thinking, or increase the variety of ways in which you ask them to learn. Product The end results of learning- reflects what students have understood and been able to apply. Plan units that reflect many ways to represent learning and provide options for students to choose from.

7. Differentiation In Action

8. HOW do we teach? Challenge: Bloom’s Levels of Thinking Variety: Gardner’s Nine Ways of Thinking and Learning Every student has strengths in thinking and learning Students learn and produce with greater ease with they’re in an area of strength Asking students to work in ways they’re less able helps them strengthen those intelligences. Consider the complexity of what you’re teaching Challenging learning demands: higher-level thinking, substantive instruction, and content with depth and breadth

9. Your Toolbox Strategies to take into the classroom

10. Grouping

11. Tiered Assignments: 6 Types Challenge Level ComplexityResourcesOutcomeProcessProduct

12. Give Students Choices Pathways Plans Project Menus Challenge Centers Spin-Offs

13. Grading in Differentiated Instruction Grades give students feedback about their learning and quality of their work To make grading fair and equitable, students need to clearly understand your expectations Grades are cumulative Don’t always grade everything