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Content Process Product
According to Students’
Readiness InterestLearningProfile
Teachers Can Differentiate
Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999).
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Content Process Product
According to Students’
Readiness InterestLearningProfile
Teachers Can Differentiate
Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999).
Pre-AssessmentPre-Assessment
What should I pre-assess?
Readiness Interest Learning Profile
“A student’s entry point to a particular understanding or skill.”
“Refers to a child’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.”
“It is shaped by intelligence preferences, gender, culture, or learning style.”
Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999).
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Teachers can differentiate based on student readiness, interest, or learning profile:◦ Content – what the student needs to learn or how the
student will get access to the information;◦ Process – activities in which the student engages in order
to make sense of or master the content; ◦ Products – culminating projects that ask the student to
rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned in a unit; and
◦ Learning environment – the way the classroom works and feels.
ContentContent
• Pre-testing identifies students who do not require direct instruction
• “Compacting the curriculum,” students pretesting out of direct instruction can skip the instruction step and proceed to apply the concepts to solving a problem
• Another way to differentiate content is to
let student adjust their rate of progress
essential understandings and skills
How can I find Reading Level?How can I find Reading Level?
Can I measure a book or piece of text on my own? ◦ Within MS Office: You can also check the readability level
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How can I find Reading Level?How can I find Reading Level?
ProcessProcess
• How the material is learned can be changed on a per student basis considering their learning styles
• Allows students to learn based either on what method is easiest for them to acquire knowledge, or what may challenge them most
• Information may be presented in multiple ways by the teacher, and may be based on any available methods or materials
appropriate methods for students to explore concepts
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ProductProduct
What the student produces in the end to demonstrates mastery of the content
Teachers may assign students OR allow students to select a product
Product dictates which components of differentiation may be selected; can impact both the ‘content’ and ‘process’
Allowing students various ways of demonstrating what they have learned from the lesson or unit
varying the complexity of the product
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EnvironmentEnvironment
• differentiated based on learning styles allows students to learn based either on the method: easiest for them to acquire knowledge OR what may challenge them most
• varying teaching strategies makes sure that students will occasionally learn in a manner compatible with their own learning preference but also expands their exposure to alternative learning strategies
• alternative ways to manipulate ideas within a concept
manipulating the environment or accommodate individual learning styles
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