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Salisbury Township School DistrictAllentown, Pennsylvania

Jennifer L. Aponick, Supervisor of Special Education Jennifer Brinson, Instructional Coach

One Size Does Not Fit All: Differentiation for all students

Differentiation Self Assessment

+Differentiated Instruction

Flexible approach to teaching with varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness, interests, and learning needs (Tomlinson, 1995)

Technology Integration serves as an excellent vehicle to help educators achieve the goal of differentiating instruction

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Principles

Acceptance and respect of differences

Materials and tasks at varied level of difficulty

Motivates students to work to their highest potential

Meaningful learning that emphasizes essential questions

Teachers who serve as facilitators of learning and use an array of strategies that connect instruction to student needs

Instruction is guided by on-going assessments

Integrating technology can meet these differentiated instruction

strategies

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+Change in Philosophy

From teaching content to teaching students Inquiry-based Collaboration Authentic learning and assessment

Realization about what’s important Essential questions Big ideas Overarching ideas

+What does DIFFERENTIATION look like?

+How can this benefit my

students?

Students often have difficulties with reading, writing, reasoning, remembering, or organizing information

Opportunities to work with appropriate concepts and technology tools and in groups of peers with a range of backgrounds and abilities

Develop strengths and apply creativity to material and products that interest them

Still “tests” the content just using different products as the “output” Content, process, product

Multiple Intelligence Survey

Birmingham Grid for Learning

Understand your learning style as a teacher

Teachers often “teach” to their own learning style

Understand the learning style of your students

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Multiple Intelligences

Visual / Spatial (PICTURE SMART)

Verbal / Linguistic (WORD SMART)

Intrapersonal (MYSELF SMART)

Auditory / Musical / Rhythmic (MUSIC SMART)

Logical / Mathematical (NUMBER SMART)

Naturalist / Physical World (NATURE SMART)

Tactile / Bodily / Kinesthetic (BODY SMART)

Interpersonal (PEOPLE SMART)

Existential (WONDER SMART)

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+Discovery Education

Video library 80,000 video clips Tied to state and national

standards

Teacher Center Calendar Lesson Plan Library

Classroom Tools Assignment Builder Quiz Builder Writing Prompt Builder

Professional Development Discovery Education Webinar

Series

www.discoveryeducation.com

Passcode: 0f84 – 7f6a

SHS Registration

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+Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the term used to describe the use of web technology to create, share, and collaborate with others.

Web 2.0 applications allow users to do more than just retrieve information. Web 2.0 allows users to participate and interact.

Web 1.0 vs. 2.0 Comparison Chart Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Reading Writing

Companies Communities

Client-server Peer-to-peer

Home pages/Personal websites Blogs

Portals RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

Wires Wireless

Owning Sharing

Netscape Google

Dial-up Broadband

Hardware costs Bandwidth costs

Britannica Online Wikipedia

Content management systems Wikis

Directories (taxonomy) Tagging (“folksonomy”)

Read only Read/write/collaborate

Individual intelligence Collective intelligence

Static Dynamic

Commercial/Proprietary Open source/shared

Web 2.0 is Here!16

Web 2.0 A to Z

http://web20atoz.wikispaces.com/Sites+A+to+Z

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60 in 60http://60in60.wikispaces.com/

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Integrate to Differentiate

http://farr-integratingit.net/Trainings/Differentiate/index.htm

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Create your own social network

Can join other nings that interest you

Ning.com

Free

+Google Docs

Edit anytime, from anywhere

Choose who can access your docs

Share changes in real time

www.docs.google.com

Free

Collaborative Creation, Accessibility, & Peer Review

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Schedule an event Schedule a meeting Determine the best

time/date for all participants

Create a poll

www.Doodle.com

Free

No registration required

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Real time collaboration for the web

Shared workspace with others

Chat

Draw

Add content from anywhere

http://thinkature.com/

Free

Registration is required

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Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

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Useful examples

Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Tic Tac Toe

Integrate to Differentiate Examples

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking

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+ Animoto

Create 30 second videos from still photos with music

Really easy for students

Animoto Example 10th grade student

Animoto.com

Free

+Create-a-Graph

Create a graph to represent information visually

Bar

Pie

Line

Area

XY

Create A Graph

Free

+Inquiry-based Learning

Critical Information Literacy Protocol

RADCAB-Online Information Evaluation Relevancy Appropriateness Detail Currency Authority Bias

Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools30

http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

Mind Meister – Zoom in31

Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools32

http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

Differentiated Instruction

Think for a moment about varying the following in your assignments: CONTENT PROCESS PRODUCT

Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the CONTENT

Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PROCESS

Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PRODUCT

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+Questions ?

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Presentation is available at:http://www.stsd.org/webpages/jbrinson/res

ources.cfm

andon the shared directory under:

Brinson/classnotes/techstrategyresources