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Differentiation – planning and teaching strategies

January 2007

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Process Content

Differentiation across the whole class

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Presentation Language Activities Questions Teaching methods Thinking processes

Differentiation by process

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Pacing and variety

Pacing and variety

Freedomof choiceFreedomof choice

Evidence of

reasoning

Evidence of

reasoning

DiscoveryDiscovery

Open-endedness

Open-endedness

Higher levels ofthinking

Higher levels ofthinking

ProcessProcess

Process

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Study of people

Study of people

OrganisationOrganisation

Study ofmethodsStudy ofmethods

VarietyVariety

ComplexityComplexity

Abstractness

Abstractness

ContentContent

Content

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Able and mixed ability groups Single gender and mixed gender groups Friendship group Expert group Age group Collaborative vs co-operative work

Grouping

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Envoy

Snow-ball

Cascade

Goldfish

Carousel

Paired tutoring

Students as teachers

Pair swapping

Allocated roles

Jigsaw

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Remember

Challenging language Differentiated questions Homework E-learning

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Effective Learning

Process + content + language + questions + resources

= management = good differentiation