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DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION: What is it?

How do I plan to meet the needs of my students?

How do I group my students to reap the most benefits?

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same way”

Howard Gardner

WHAT IS DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION? Differentiated instruction is a

way of thinking about teaching and learning.

Differentiating instruction involves providing instruction at different levels to meet the individual differences of students. This includes instruction, classroom materials, products and assessments.

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTIONIS A WAY OF USING DATA IN: Whole group instruction

Small group instruction

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WHY IS DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION IMPORTANT?A mistake we often make ineducation is to plan thecurriculum materials verycarefully, arrange all theinstructional materials wall towall, open the doors of theschool, and then find to ourdismay that they’ve sent us thewrong kids.

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DIFFERENTIATION OF INSTRUCTION

“is a teacher’s response to learner’s needs guided by general principles of differentiation such as:

Respectful Tasks Flexible Grouping Ongoing Assessment & Adjustments”

Flexible Grouping

Ongoing Assessments

Respectful Tasks

Using assessment data to determine the

instructional needs of students, differentiated instruction is planned

and delivered with precision.

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL!

WHO SHOULD RECEIVE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION?

ALL students

DIFFERENTIATION OF INSTRUCTION IS A TEACHER’S RESPONSE TO LEARNER’S NEEDS.

ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM THAT CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED -

CONTENT Content consists of facts,

concepts, skills, generalization or principles related to the subject.

Content includes both what the teacher plans for the students to learn and how the student gains access to desired knowledge, understanding and skills.

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DIFFERENTIATING CONTENT

We can differentiate content by:

1) Using manipulatives2) Using texts at more than one

level3) Using texts, computer

programs, tape recorders, videos, pictures, etc.

ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM THAT CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED

– PROCESS

Process is how the learner comes to make sense of, understand, and own the key facts, concepts and skills of the subject.

Process = Activity

PROCESS

DIFFERENTIATING PROCESS

We can differentiate an activity or process by:

1) Providing varied options at differing levels of difficulty or based on differing student interests.

2) Offering different amounts of support.3) Provide students with choices as to how they

express what they learn.Ex: Write a letter, draw a political cartoon or create a diagram

ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM THAT CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED - PRODUCT

Products refer to the items a student can use to demonstrate what he or she understands and can be able to do as a result of an extended period of study.

Examples of Products: Portfolio of skills achieved over

the course of semester End of the Unit Projects End of the Unit Test

DIFFERENTIATING PRODUCT

We can differentiate products by allowing students to:

-Create and design their own products around learning goals.

-Express what they have learned in varied ways.

-Work in flexible groups and arrangements

-Provide product assignments in varying degrees of difficulty

-Use a wide variety of assessments -Develop rubrics of quality

DELIVERY: HOW WE TEACH

1. Teachers demonstrate explicit steps and strategies to students explaining the strategy and its purpose.

2. Teacher model multiple examples of how to apply the strategy using a “think aloud” procedure while interacting with actual text.

3. Teachers provide students with extensive opportunities to practice strategies and offer high-quality feedback.

4. Teachers structure ample review and opportunities for learning how and when to use strategies, within the context of instruction.

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER?

What is differentiated instruction?Planned and delivered with precision

Which students receive differentiated instruction?All students

Which elements of the curriculum can be differentiated?Content, Process, and Product