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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

of a passage using the Flesch Reading Ease and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level built into the newest versions of Microsoft® Word. In Word 2007, to display readability statistics...

* Click the Microsoft Office button, click Word options, and click proofing.* Put a check in the box for check grammar with spelling.* Under when correcting grammar in Word, select the show readability statistics check box.* When Microsoft® Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it displays information about the reading level of the document.

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

You can video conference within the district from a webcam at your desk to another desktop with webcam

Set up a time for an eLS to come demonstrate, download your software and get you started

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