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Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction // Carol Ann Tomlinson

  • Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction



    Even though students may learn in many ways, the essential skills and content they learn can remain steady. That is, students can take different roads to the same destination.



    Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiating Instruction For the Gifted

  • A particular challenge for middle school teachers is being able to
    differentiate or adapt instruction to respond to the diverse student
    needs found in inclusive, mixed-ability classrooms. This digest
    provides an overview of some key principles for differentiating
    instruction, with an emphasis on the learning needs of academically
    advanced learners.

Differentiated Instruction

  • Essential Question:  How
    do I effectively and efficiently reach all students in a
    heterogeneous environment

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    Differentiated Instruction and Web 2.0 Tools

Home Page

  • Federal law, IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act),  mandates the
    meeting of academic needs of all students in the classroom.  This site offers high
    level differentiated content curriculum for high-ability and gifted students in the
    classroom. All of these activities are technology integrated.

Differentiated Instruction

  • In
    this area we offer an excellent array of articles on differentiated
    instruction that take into consideration the great variety of ways
    in which students learn. With the growing diversity of students in
    every classroom, it is essential to offer more choices in how to learn
    and more ways that can engage learners in ways they learn best.

What is Differentiated Instruction

    • Differentiated Instruction is based on the following beliefs:
      • Students differ in their learning profiles
      • Classrooms in which students are active learners, decision makers and
        problem solvers are more natural and effective than those in which students
        are served a "one-size-fits-all" curriculum and treated as passive recipients
        of information 
      • "Covering information" takes a backseat to making meaning out of important
        ideas.

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

  • Differentiated instruction is an approach to planning so that one lesson is taught to the entire class while meeting the individual needs of each child.

    The teacher weaves the individual goals into the classroom content and instructional strategies. The content and the instructional strategies are the vehicles by which the teacher meets the needs of all the students.

Differentiated Instruction

  • On
    a simple level, differentiated instruction is teaching with student
    variance in mind. It means starting where the kids are rather than
    adopting a standardized approach to teaching that seems to presume
    that all learners of a given age or grade are essentially alike.
    Thus differentiated instruction is �responsive� teaching rather than �one-size-fits-all� teaching

Differentiated Instruction | Differentiated Instruction

  • What is DI?

    "Differentiated Instruction is effective


    instruction that is responsive to the


    learning preferences, interests and


    readiness of the individual learner."

Strategies for Differentiating

  • Teachers
    new to differentiating instruction may initially choose to use
    individual strategies and begin by differentiating either
    content,
    process or product

    It is
    also important to recognize that there is a
    considerable overlap between the strategies listed below. As teachers
    become comfortable with these strategies several may be very effectively
    employed simultaneously.

How to Plan For Differentiate Instruction

  • How
    to Plan For Differentiate Instruction


    After having read what the research has to offer on differentiated instruction,
    specifically, brain-based research on learning, learning styles and multiple
    intelligences, and authentic assessment, you are now ready to plan.

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