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Differentiating Instruction:
Beginning the Journey
"In the end, all learners need
your energy, your heart and
your mind. They have that in
common because they are
young humans. How they need
you however, differs. Unless we
understand and respond to
those differences, we fail many
learners."
Tomlinson, C.A. (2001). How to differentiate instruction in mixed ability
classrooms (2nd Ed.). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Differentiated
Instruction
Defined

“Differentiated instruction is a teaching
philosophy based on the premise that
teachers should adapt instruction to
student differences. Rather than marching
students through the curriculum lockstep,
teachers should modify their instruction to
meet students’ varying readiness levels,
learning preferences, and interests.
Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a
variety of ways to ‘get at’ and express
learning.”

Carol Ann Tomlinson
Research
Brain research suggests three broad and
interrelated principles that point clearly to
the need for differentiated classrooms, that
is, classrooms responsive to students’:

• Varying language readiness levels,
• Varying interests, and
• Varying learning profiles.

 

http://www.ascd.org/pdi/demo/diffinstr/tomlinson.html
How the Brain Learns, Carol Ann Tomlinson and M. Layne Kalbfleisch
Research
Brain Research confirms what experienced
teachers have always known:
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No two children are alike.
No two children learn in the same identical
way.
An enriched environment for one student
is not necessarily enriched for another.
In the classroom, children should be
taught to think for themselves.

Marian Diamonds: Professor of Neuroanatomy at Berkeley
http://www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/199811/darcangelo.html
Brain Research
• An enriched environment gives students
the opportunity to make sense out of what
they are learning.
• The brain constantly seeks connections
between the new and the known.
• Allow the child to be an active participant
rather than a passive observer.
• Students need appropriate challenge.
Research says . . .
• Most teachers and students have not been in effective
differentiated classrooms.
• Most teachers believe differentiated instruction would
benefit students but do not believe it is feasible.
• Most teachers who try differentiated instruction often are
more reactive than proactive in planning.
• Even special class settings seldom differentiate for
multiple exceptionalities.

Tomlinson, 2005
Schumm & Vaughn, 1991
A New Paradigm
• Curriculum is defined as to what a student will
be able to demonstrate
• Each student experiences successful outcomes
• Essential that we understand what the student
knew at the beginning and move forward from
that point in a successful manner
• Need to understand how each student learns
best
• Need to build on what each student already
knows
Ways Individuals Can Differ—Know
Your Students
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Cognitive and Affective Domains
Prior Knowledge and Skill Experience
Learning Rate
Learning Style Preferences
Motivation, Attitudes, and Effort
Interests, Multiple Intelligence Strengths,
and Talents
Differentiation:
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiation is a teaching concept in which the
classroom teacher plans for the diverse needs of
students. The teacher must consider such
differences as the students’:
• Learning styles, skill levels, and rates
• Learning difficulties
• Language proficiency
• Background experiences and knowledge
• Interests
• Motivation
• Ability to attend
• Social and emotional development
• Various intelligences
• Levels of abstraction
• Physical needs
Insanity is

doing the same thing
over and over again
and expecting
different results
--Albert Einstein
25-Year History in Education
• Acknowledge that one size does not fit all
• Research showed students benefited
most from heterogeneous classes
• Demand to eliminate segregation based
on color, disability, and language
• Look at Learning Styles, Multiple
Intelligences, Cognitive and Affective
Domains—Physical, Social, and Emotional
Differentiate
Differentiate
(Verb) To:
“mark as different, a distinctive feature or
attribute or characteristic; become different
during development; develop in a way most
suited to the environment; become distinct
and acquire a different character.”
What is Differentiation?
• A teacher’s response to learner needs
• The recognition of students’ varying
background knowledge and preferences
• Instruction that appeals to students’
differences
In a Differentiated Classroom
Teachers Differentiate
• Content
• Process
• Products
According to a student’s
• Readiness
• Interest
• Learning Profile
Good Teaching is Differentiating
Content, Process, and Products
• Pace/Level
Compacting, Learning Stations, Tiered Activities
• Depth/Breadth
Integrated Curriculum, Learning Styles, Creative
Processes
• Grouping
Cluster, Interest, Tiered, Independent
Smutney & Von Fremd, 2004
The Key
The Key to a differentiated classroom is that all
students are regularly offered CHOICES and
students are matched with tasks compatible with
their individual learner profiles.
Curriculum should be differentiated in three areas:
1. Content:
Multiple options for taking in information
2. Process:
Multiple options for making sense of the ideas
3. Product:
Multiple options for expressing what they know
Key Characteristic of a
Differentiated Classroom
An obvious feature of the differentiated
classroom is that it is “student centered.”
Shifting the emphasis from the "teacher and
instruction" focus to the "student and
learning" focus means redefining the role of
the teacher.
Teachers Can Differentiate
Content

Process

Product

According to Students’
Readiness

Interest

Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999)

Learning
Profile
Some Differentiation Strategies
• Choice Boards
• Tiered Activities
• Learning Contracts
Differentiation Strategies
Low Preparation Differentiation
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Choice of books
Homework options
Multiple level texts
Multiple level questions
Journal prompts
Explore by interest
Think-Pair-Share
Flexible groups by
readiness, interest, and
learning profile
• Computer programs

• Multiple levels of
questions
• Work alone or together
• Reading buddies
• Vary pacing
• Negotiated criteria
• Open-ended activities
• Jigsaw
• Games
Tomlinson, 2001
High Preparation Differentiation
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Tiered Activities
Tiered Projects
Multiple Texts
Multiple Testing Options
Alternative Assessments
Course Compacting
Spelling by Readiness
Varying Organizers
Learning Contracts
Compacting

• Tiered Centers
• Interest Centers/Group
Stations
• Group Investigations
• Choice Boards
• Think-Tac-Toe
• Graduated Rubrics

Tomlinson, 2001
Where do I Go From Here?
Some Tips for Implementing
Differentiation in your Classroom
• Start slowly
• Organize your classroom space
Teacher Station 1

Inboxes

Bookshelf

Teacher
Station
2

Schedule

Group
Assignments
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Concrete  Abstract
Simple  Complex
Basic  Transformational
Fewer  Multi-facets
Smaller Leaps  Greater Leaps
More Structure  More Open
Slower  Quicker
Where do I Go From Here?
Some Tips for Implementing
Differentiation in your Classroom
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Start student files
Start student portfolios
Use a clipboard
Use of technology
Start class with familiar tasks
Use task cards, a tape recorder, or an
overhead for directions
• Have systems for student questions
Differentiation is . . .
• A way of thinking about teaching and learning
• A philosophy based on a set of beliefs
• A blend of whole class, small group, and
individual instruction
• A teaching theory based on the premise that
instructional approaches should vary and be
adaptable to diverse students
• Not new and not whole class all the time
• Is necessary but not needed every day
If everyone is doing the same
thing, it is not differentiation.
What Differentiated Instruction Is Not
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A recipe for teaching
What the teacher does when he/she has time
Grouping by scholastic ability
Synonymous with individual instruction
Lines of students waiting for help from the
teacher
• Hard to keep track of student knowledge
• Just about student choice
Concept of Differentiated
Instruction
• As old as Confucious
who taught over 3,000 students
was willing to teach anyone
advised that people differ in their abilities
counseled you have to start where they are

• As old as a one-room school house
students vary greatly in age, experience, abilities, and
proficiency
More about the one-room
schoolhouse . . .
• Teachers had to be flexible in use of time,
space, materials, groupings, and
instruction.
• Teachers had to plan for different
instruction based on what level of mastery
the student performed.
The past 25 years in education
• Consolidated schools
• Assigned students to classrooms
according to age
• Had wisdom that teacher’s job would be
easier if age was factored out of the
teaching/learning equation.
• Believed one lesson worked for the whole
group—teaching to the middle
Teaching is one of the greatest
joys of life.
• Let all students have an equal chance to
learn.
• Since the 1970s the numbers in special
education have increased 400%.
• Now the ratio is 7:1.
For every 7 students there is 1 special education student.

• Why?

Assessment instruments, Psychologists, better informed
parents, and teachers have become more compassionate
Today
• High-stakes testing
• Testing mandates
• Appear to be moving beyond one-size fits
all
• Hearing about the concept of
Differentiated Instruction
• Advanced learners likely to suffer in
heterogeneous placement unless
opportunities are consistently available
Research reports . . .
Most teachers persist with a singlesize approach and are repeatedly
disappointed by test scores and
shortfall in student achievement.
Students learn best when
• Supportive adults push them slightly
(moderately) beyond where they can work
without assistance
• They make connections between curriculum and
interests in life experiences
• Learning opportunities are natural
• Classrooms and schools create a sense of
community where students feel significant and
respected
Why Differentiate?
• At school every student’s job is to learn
• Ultimate goal is effective classroom
practices
• Every student learning—whatever it takes
How to Differentiate
• Survey student interests, learning styles, and
multiple intelligences
• Assess prior knowledge
• Vary content, process (activities), and product
• Keep it simple, start small, take small steps, take
it slow
• Use learning centers
• Use Different Grouping Strategies
• Use Technology (Internet research and
Webquests)
Differentiate Content
• Determine what you want the student to
be able to know, understand, and do
• Requires pretesting
• Compacting curriculum to identify students
who do not require direct instruction who
can proceed to tasks of solving a problem
or accelerating rate of progress
• Means some students can work
independently and cover content faster
Differentiate Process
• Use a variety of learning activities and strategies
• Give students alternate paths
• Use varied complexity of graphic organizers,
maps, diagrams, and charts to display
comprehension
• Grouping strategies
• Provide variety of resources
• Provide extension activities
• Ongoing assessment to modify strategies
• Provide frequent feedback
Layered Curriculum
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C Level
Most assignments, general understanding, 15-20 choices
B Level
where student looks forward to finishing C and getting to B
A Level—ultimate goal
Turn out students who can critically think about issues, analyze,
research, and form an opinion
Kathy Nunley’s Layered Curriculum

http://help4teachers.com/samples2.htm
TIERED INSTRUCTION
A PLANNING STRATEGY
FOR MIXED ABILITY
CLASSROOMS
“A Different Spin
on an Old Idea.”
SOURCE: based on work by Carol Ann Tomlinson
WHAT CAN BE TIERED?
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ASSIGNMENTS
ACTIVITIES
CENTERS & STATIONS
LEARNING CONTRACTS
ASSESSMENTS
MATERIALS
EXPERIMENTS
WRITING PROMPTS
HOMEWORK
IDENTIFY OUTCOMES

WHAT SHOULD THE STUDENTS KNOW, UNDERSTAND, OR BE ABLE
TO DO?

THINK ABOUT YOUR STUDENTS

PRE-ASSESS READINESS, INTEREST, OR LEARNING PROFILE

INITIATING ACTIVITIES

USE AS COMMON EXPERIENCE FOR WHOLE CLASS

GROUP 1
TASK

GROUP 2
TASK

GROUP 3
TASK
Planning Tiered Assignments
Concept to be Understood
OR
Skill to be Mastered
Create on-level task first then adjust up and
down.
Below-Level
Task

On-Level
Task

“Adjusting the
Task”

Above-Level
Task
When Tiering:
Adjust--• Level of Complexity
• Amount of
Structure
• Materials
• Time/Pace
• Number of Steps
• Form of Expression
• Level of
Dependence
Develop Tiered Activities for
Advanced Learners
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Tiered means different work not more work
Encourage broader reading
Focus on problem solving
Develop creative talents
Provide meaningful work with peers of
similar interests
• Promote higher level thinking
The “Equalizer”
1. Foundational

Transformational

2. Concrete

Abstract

3. Simple

Complex

5. Smaller Leap

6. More Structured

7. Clearly Defined Problems

8. Less Independence
4. Fewer Facets

Greater Leap

More Open

Fuzzy Problems

Greater Independence

Multi-facets
9. Slower

Quicker
Differentiate Products
• Vary the complexity of the product to
demonstrate mastery of concepts
• Have reduced performance expectations
for students working below grade level
• Require more complex and advanced
thinking for advanced learners
• Offer a choice of products to address
multiple intelligence strengths and
motivate student learning
to Differentiate Product
• Choices based on readiness, interest, and
learning profile
• Clear expectations
• Timelines
• Agreements
• Product Guides
• Rubrics
• Evaluation
Curriculum Tells Us What To Teach
Differentiation Tells Us How To Teach
What do you want students to know,
understand, and do?
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Need a flexible learning environment
Need student-centered focus on student interests
Encourage independence
Modifications in content, process, and projects
Richer, more rigor, more diverse, and encourage
abstract and complexity
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A Student who UNDERSTANDS
Something can…

Explain it clearly, giving examples
Use it
Compare and contrast it with other concepts
Relate it to other instances in the subject studies, other subjects and
personal life experiences
Transfer it to unfamiliar settings
Discover the concept embedded within a novel problem
Combine it appropriately with other understandings
Pose new problems that exemplify or embody the concept
Create analogies, models, metaphors, symbols, or pictures of the
concept
Pose and answer “what-if” questions that alter variables in a
problematic situation
Generate questions and hypotheses that lead to new knowledge and
further inquiries
Generalize from specifics to form a concept
Use the knowledge to appropriately assess his or her performance,
or that of someone else.
Adopted from Barell, J. (1995) Teaching for thoughtfulness: Classroom Strategies
Skills
These are the basic skills of any discipline. They include the
thinking skills such as analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing.
These are the skills of planning, the skills of being an
independent learner, the skills of setting and following criteria,
the skills of using the tools of knowledge such as adding,
dividing, understanding multiple perspectives, following a
timeline, calculating latitude, or following the scientific method.
The skill portion encourages the students to “think” like the
professionals who use the knowledge and skill daily as a matter
of how they do business. This is what it means to “be like” a
doctor, a scientist, a writer or an artist.
Build Self-Efficacy
• Can-do Attitude
• Successes build belief
• Most effective is through mastery
experiences
• Failures can undermine
• One’s judgment of one’s capability to
perform given activities
Siegle, 2005
A New Paradigm in Education
• People learn at different rates
• Students are not learning enough
• Students need mastery learning and sense of
self-efficacy
• Make continuous progress
• Teacher as coach/facilitator
• Need for thinking skills and problem solving
skills
• Strengthen Interpersonal skills
Our new mission is Learning
• Produce learning with every student
• Work backwards by design—identify the desired
outcomes
• Provide a variety of learning strategies
• Provide more opportunities to learn
• Offer different pacing
• Increase collaboration between students and
teachers
• Differentiate the core curriculum by modifying
content, process, and product based on
students interests, learning profile, and
readiness
Differentiation—Goal of the Teacher
Become an expert on differentiation
• Powerful curriculum is what will make the best
difference in student achievement
• Increase challenge in the core curriculum
• Reflective understanding
• Network with other teachers
• Attend professional development workshops
• Become a professional in the field of
differentiation.
Differentiation Instruction

for
Interest – Readiness – Learning Profile
by
Self – Peers - Teachers

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DI Powerpoint

  • 1.
  • 2. Differentiating Instruction: Beginning the Journey "In the end, all learners need your energy, your heart and your mind. They have that in common because they are young humans. How they need you however, differs. Unless we understand and respond to those differences, we fail many learners." Tomlinson, C.A. (2001). How to differentiate instruction in mixed ability classrooms (2nd Ed.). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
  • 3. Differentiated Instruction Defined “Differentiated instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students’ varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to ‘get at’ and express learning.” Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • 4. Research Brain research suggests three broad and interrelated principles that point clearly to the need for differentiated classrooms, that is, classrooms responsive to students’: • Varying language readiness levels, • Varying interests, and • Varying learning profiles.   http://www.ascd.org/pdi/demo/diffinstr/tomlinson.html How the Brain Learns, Carol Ann Tomlinson and M. Layne Kalbfleisch
  • 5. Research Brain Research confirms what experienced teachers have always known:     No two children are alike. No two children learn in the same identical way. An enriched environment for one student is not necessarily enriched for another. In the classroom, children should be taught to think for themselves. Marian Diamonds: Professor of Neuroanatomy at Berkeley http://www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/199811/darcangelo.html
  • 6. Brain Research • An enriched environment gives students the opportunity to make sense out of what they are learning. • The brain constantly seeks connections between the new and the known. • Allow the child to be an active participant rather than a passive observer. • Students need appropriate challenge.
  • 7. Research says . . . • Most teachers and students have not been in effective differentiated classrooms. • Most teachers believe differentiated instruction would benefit students but do not believe it is feasible. • Most teachers who try differentiated instruction often are more reactive than proactive in planning. • Even special class settings seldom differentiate for multiple exceptionalities. Tomlinson, 2005 Schumm & Vaughn, 1991
  • 8. A New Paradigm • Curriculum is defined as to what a student will be able to demonstrate • Each student experiences successful outcomes • Essential that we understand what the student knew at the beginning and move forward from that point in a successful manner • Need to understand how each student learns best • Need to build on what each student already knows
  • 9. Ways Individuals Can Differ—Know Your Students • • • • • • Cognitive and Affective Domains Prior Knowledge and Skill Experience Learning Rate Learning Style Preferences Motivation, Attitudes, and Effort Interests, Multiple Intelligence Strengths, and Talents
  • 10. Differentiation: Differentiated Instruction Differentiation is a teaching concept in which the classroom teacher plans for the diverse needs of students. The teacher must consider such differences as the students’: • Learning styles, skill levels, and rates • Learning difficulties • Language proficiency • Background experiences and knowledge • Interests • Motivation • Ability to attend • Social and emotional development • Various intelligences • Levels of abstraction • Physical needs
  • 11. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results --Albert Einstein
  • 12. 25-Year History in Education • Acknowledge that one size does not fit all • Research showed students benefited most from heterogeneous classes • Demand to eliminate segregation based on color, disability, and language • Look at Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, Cognitive and Affective Domains—Physical, Social, and Emotional
  • 13. Differentiate Differentiate (Verb) To: “mark as different, a distinctive feature or attribute or characteristic; become different during development; develop in a way most suited to the environment; become distinct and acquire a different character.”
  • 14. What is Differentiation? • A teacher’s response to learner needs • The recognition of students’ varying background knowledge and preferences • Instruction that appeals to students’ differences
  • 15. In a Differentiated Classroom Teachers Differentiate • Content • Process • Products According to a student’s • Readiness • Interest • Learning Profile
  • 16. Good Teaching is Differentiating Content, Process, and Products • Pace/Level Compacting, Learning Stations, Tiered Activities • Depth/Breadth Integrated Curriculum, Learning Styles, Creative Processes • Grouping Cluster, Interest, Tiered, Independent Smutney & Von Fremd, 2004
  • 17. The Key The Key to a differentiated classroom is that all students are regularly offered CHOICES and students are matched with tasks compatible with their individual learner profiles. Curriculum should be differentiated in three areas: 1. Content: Multiple options for taking in information 2. Process: Multiple options for making sense of the ideas 3. Product: Multiple options for expressing what they know
  • 18. Key Characteristic of a Differentiated Classroom An obvious feature of the differentiated classroom is that it is “student centered.” Shifting the emphasis from the "teacher and instruction" focus to the "student and learning" focus means redefining the role of the teacher.
  • 19. Teachers Can Differentiate Content Process Product According to Students’ Readiness Interest Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999) Learning Profile
  • 20. Some Differentiation Strategies • Choice Boards • Tiered Activities • Learning Contracts
  • 22. Low Preparation Differentiation • • • • • • • • Choice of books Homework options Multiple level texts Multiple level questions Journal prompts Explore by interest Think-Pair-Share Flexible groups by readiness, interest, and learning profile • Computer programs • Multiple levels of questions • Work alone or together • Reading buddies • Vary pacing • Negotiated criteria • Open-ended activities • Jigsaw • Games Tomlinson, 2001
  • 23. High Preparation Differentiation • • • • • • • • • • Tiered Activities Tiered Projects Multiple Texts Multiple Testing Options Alternative Assessments Course Compacting Spelling by Readiness Varying Organizers Learning Contracts Compacting • Tiered Centers • Interest Centers/Group Stations • Group Investigations • Choice Boards • Think-Tac-Toe • Graduated Rubrics Tomlinson, 2001
  • 24. Where do I Go From Here? Some Tips for Implementing Differentiation in your Classroom • Start slowly • Organize your classroom space
  • 26. • • • • • • • Concrete  Abstract Simple  Complex Basic  Transformational Fewer  Multi-facets Smaller Leaps  Greater Leaps More Structure  More Open Slower  Quicker
  • 27. Where do I Go From Here? Some Tips for Implementing Differentiation in your Classroom • • • • • • Start student files Start student portfolios Use a clipboard Use of technology Start class with familiar tasks Use task cards, a tape recorder, or an overhead for directions • Have systems for student questions
  • 28. Differentiation is . . . • A way of thinking about teaching and learning • A philosophy based on a set of beliefs • A blend of whole class, small group, and individual instruction • A teaching theory based on the premise that instructional approaches should vary and be adaptable to diverse students • Not new and not whole class all the time • Is necessary but not needed every day
  • 29. If everyone is doing the same thing, it is not differentiation.
  • 30. What Differentiated Instruction Is Not • • • • • A recipe for teaching What the teacher does when he/she has time Grouping by scholastic ability Synonymous with individual instruction Lines of students waiting for help from the teacher • Hard to keep track of student knowledge • Just about student choice
  • 31. Concept of Differentiated Instruction • As old as Confucious who taught over 3,000 students was willing to teach anyone advised that people differ in their abilities counseled you have to start where they are • As old as a one-room school house students vary greatly in age, experience, abilities, and proficiency
  • 32. More about the one-room schoolhouse . . . • Teachers had to be flexible in use of time, space, materials, groupings, and instruction. • Teachers had to plan for different instruction based on what level of mastery the student performed.
  • 33. The past 25 years in education • Consolidated schools • Assigned students to classrooms according to age • Had wisdom that teacher’s job would be easier if age was factored out of the teaching/learning equation. • Believed one lesson worked for the whole group—teaching to the middle
  • 34. Teaching is one of the greatest joys of life. • Let all students have an equal chance to learn. • Since the 1970s the numbers in special education have increased 400%. • Now the ratio is 7:1. For every 7 students there is 1 special education student. • Why? Assessment instruments, Psychologists, better informed parents, and teachers have become more compassionate
  • 35. Today • High-stakes testing • Testing mandates • Appear to be moving beyond one-size fits all • Hearing about the concept of Differentiated Instruction • Advanced learners likely to suffer in heterogeneous placement unless opportunities are consistently available
  • 36. Research reports . . . Most teachers persist with a singlesize approach and are repeatedly disappointed by test scores and shortfall in student achievement.
  • 37. Students learn best when • Supportive adults push them slightly (moderately) beyond where they can work without assistance • They make connections between curriculum and interests in life experiences • Learning opportunities are natural • Classrooms and schools create a sense of community where students feel significant and respected
  • 38. Why Differentiate? • At school every student’s job is to learn • Ultimate goal is effective classroom practices • Every student learning—whatever it takes
  • 39. How to Differentiate • Survey student interests, learning styles, and multiple intelligences • Assess prior knowledge • Vary content, process (activities), and product • Keep it simple, start small, take small steps, take it slow • Use learning centers • Use Different Grouping Strategies • Use Technology (Internet research and Webquests)
  • 40. Differentiate Content • Determine what you want the student to be able to know, understand, and do • Requires pretesting • Compacting curriculum to identify students who do not require direct instruction who can proceed to tasks of solving a problem or accelerating rate of progress • Means some students can work independently and cover content faster
  • 41. Differentiate Process • Use a variety of learning activities and strategies • Give students alternate paths • Use varied complexity of graphic organizers, maps, diagrams, and charts to display comprehension • Grouping strategies • Provide variety of resources • Provide extension activities • Ongoing assessment to modify strategies • Provide frequent feedback
  • 42. Layered Curriculum • • • C Level Most assignments, general understanding, 15-20 choices B Level where student looks forward to finishing C and getting to B A Level—ultimate goal Turn out students who can critically think about issues, analyze, research, and form an opinion Kathy Nunley’s Layered Curriculum http://help4teachers.com/samples2.htm
  • 43. TIERED INSTRUCTION A PLANNING STRATEGY FOR MIXED ABILITY CLASSROOMS “A Different Spin on an Old Idea.” SOURCE: based on work by Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • 44. WHAT CAN BE TIERED? • • • • • • • • • ASSIGNMENTS ACTIVITIES CENTERS & STATIONS LEARNING CONTRACTS ASSESSMENTS MATERIALS EXPERIMENTS WRITING PROMPTS HOMEWORK
  • 45. IDENTIFY OUTCOMES WHAT SHOULD THE STUDENTS KNOW, UNDERSTAND, OR BE ABLE TO DO? THINK ABOUT YOUR STUDENTS PRE-ASSESS READINESS, INTEREST, OR LEARNING PROFILE INITIATING ACTIVITIES USE AS COMMON EXPERIENCE FOR WHOLE CLASS GROUP 1 TASK GROUP 2 TASK GROUP 3 TASK
  • 46. Planning Tiered Assignments Concept to be Understood OR Skill to be Mastered Create on-level task first then adjust up and down. Below-Level Task On-Level Task “Adjusting the Task” Above-Level Task
  • 47. When Tiering: Adjust--• Level of Complexity • Amount of Structure • Materials • Time/Pace • Number of Steps • Form of Expression • Level of Dependence
  • 48. Develop Tiered Activities for Advanced Learners • • • • • Tiered means different work not more work Encourage broader reading Focus on problem solving Develop creative talents Provide meaningful work with peers of similar interests • Promote higher level thinking
  • 49. The “Equalizer” 1. Foundational Transformational 2. Concrete Abstract 3. Simple Complex 5. Smaller Leap 6. More Structured 7. Clearly Defined Problems 8. Less Independence 4. Fewer Facets Greater Leap More Open Fuzzy Problems Greater Independence Multi-facets 9. Slower Quicker
  • 50. Differentiate Products • Vary the complexity of the product to demonstrate mastery of concepts • Have reduced performance expectations for students working below grade level • Require more complex and advanced thinking for advanced learners • Offer a choice of products to address multiple intelligence strengths and motivate student learning
  • 51. to Differentiate Product • Choices based on readiness, interest, and learning profile • Clear expectations • Timelines • Agreements • Product Guides • Rubrics • Evaluation
  • 52. Curriculum Tells Us What To Teach Differentiation Tells Us How To Teach What do you want students to know, understand, and do? • • • • • Need a flexible learning environment Need student-centered focus on student interests Encourage independence Modifications in content, process, and projects Richer, more rigor, more diverse, and encourage abstract and complexity
  • 53. • • • • • • • • • • • • • A Student who UNDERSTANDS Something can… Explain it clearly, giving examples Use it Compare and contrast it with other concepts Relate it to other instances in the subject studies, other subjects and personal life experiences Transfer it to unfamiliar settings Discover the concept embedded within a novel problem Combine it appropriately with other understandings Pose new problems that exemplify or embody the concept Create analogies, models, metaphors, symbols, or pictures of the concept Pose and answer “what-if” questions that alter variables in a problematic situation Generate questions and hypotheses that lead to new knowledge and further inquiries Generalize from specifics to form a concept Use the knowledge to appropriately assess his or her performance, or that of someone else. Adopted from Barell, J. (1995) Teaching for thoughtfulness: Classroom Strategies
  • 54. Skills These are the basic skills of any discipline. They include the thinking skills such as analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing. These are the skills of planning, the skills of being an independent learner, the skills of setting and following criteria, the skills of using the tools of knowledge such as adding, dividing, understanding multiple perspectives, following a timeline, calculating latitude, or following the scientific method. The skill portion encourages the students to “think” like the professionals who use the knowledge and skill daily as a matter of how they do business. This is what it means to “be like” a doctor, a scientist, a writer or an artist.
  • 55. Build Self-Efficacy • Can-do Attitude • Successes build belief • Most effective is through mastery experiences • Failures can undermine • One’s judgment of one’s capability to perform given activities Siegle, 2005
  • 56. A New Paradigm in Education • People learn at different rates • Students are not learning enough • Students need mastery learning and sense of self-efficacy • Make continuous progress • Teacher as coach/facilitator • Need for thinking skills and problem solving skills • Strengthen Interpersonal skills
  • 57. Our new mission is Learning • Produce learning with every student • Work backwards by design—identify the desired outcomes • Provide a variety of learning strategies • Provide more opportunities to learn • Offer different pacing • Increase collaboration between students and teachers • Differentiate the core curriculum by modifying content, process, and product based on students interests, learning profile, and readiness
  • 58. Differentiation—Goal of the Teacher Become an expert on differentiation • Powerful curriculum is what will make the best difference in student achievement • Increase challenge in the core curriculum • Reflective understanding • Network with other teachers • Attend professional development workshops • Become a professional in the field of differentiation.
  • 59. Differentiation Instruction for Interest – Readiness – Learning Profile by Self – Peers - Teachers

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Main points to make while talking about this slide: To differentiate instruction is to recognize students’ varying background knowledge, readiness, learning styles, and interests and to react to that. The intent of differentiated instruction is to maximize each student’s growth and individual success by meeting each student where he or she is and designing instruction that matches students’ needs.
  2. Go through and talk about each green box. Content – What is being taught. You can differentiate the actual content being presented to students. Process – How the student learns what is being taught. For example, some students need to interact with the material physically, some might prefer to read a book. Product – How the student shows what he/she has learned. For example, students can write a paper or they can present information orally. Readiness – Skill level and background knowledge of child. We try to stay away from the word “ability” because you don’t always know the ability level of a child if their readiness level is low. Interest – Child’s interest or preferences – these can be interests within the curricular area (for example, they might be interested specifically in learning about folklore in a unit on volcanoes) or in general (for example, knowing a student’s favorite cartoon character could allow you to tie that into an example and might motivate the student) Learning Profile – This includes learning style (is the student a visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic learner), as well as preferences for environmental (such as level of distraction, exposure to light or noise) or grouping factors (small group, large group, or individual)
  3. Explain each of these using the following handouts: For Choice Boards: First – show the Diner menu handout. Explain that each student does the appetizer and they have choice on the entrees and an option of the dessert. Explain that you can easily modify this for particular students so that they have more or less choice (for example, perhaps the appetizer is optional for students at a higher readiness level, while the dessert is not optional). Point out that each entrée activity lead to the same outcome, but students choose the way in which they get there. Second – show the Think-Tac-Toe board. Students pick 3 activities to do, crossing them off the way you would need to in tic-tac-toe. Explain that you can also give students modified choices by telling them that the have to do three diagonally (and therefore must do the one in the middle) or horizontally. For Tiered Activities: Show the tiered activities lesson plan. Explain that all three lessons address the same outcome, but each lesson is adjusted according to student readiness. For Learning Contracts: There are two handouts for this. One is a more elementary example and the other is more secondary. Explain how these can be used so that students can explore areas of interest in more depth and take some ownership and planning of their work. These are also good for students to work on when they must do independent work while the teacher works with small groups.
  4. Tell participants they are now going to look at some strategies in more depth. Go to the next slide.
  5. Start Slowly – begin with one subject and one technique – use it for a while then add more It will take students, as well as the teacher, time to adjust to a new way of learning. Organize your classroom space – think about how your room is arranged and whether it provides space and materials for students to work in various configurations Go to the next slide
  6. One way a classroom can be set up The teacher station is for work with small groups. All needed materials are on the shelf behind the teacher so that teacher and students can stay in one place (not get up to get things) during that group work time. Desks can be manipulated so students can work independently, in small groups, or in pairs. Each student should, if possible, have a “home base” desk that they go to when they first come to class. Teacher station 2 can be used if there is a classroom aide or a co-teacher. If not – it can be used for student small group work or for a learning station. The inboxes can be used to store materials or as places where students turn in work. Think about labeling them by subject area for elementary school or by class period for secondary students. Color coding materials can also help students find things quickly without teacher assistance – for example, all math books are red or all 2nd period journals are yellow. Organize things on the bookshelf this way as well. Always keep a schedule and group assignments posted. Kids should be able to figure out where they are supposed to be and who they are working with without having to ask the teacher. The red hexagons represent pillows – give students opportunities to work on the floor if it meets their learning profile. Create structure around this (for example, they pick one place and stay there for a defined time period), but allow students to be comfortable when they work. It will help motivate.
  7. Student Files: Have a set of folders where you can easily place anecdotal notes about students or copies of completed assessments. Student portfolios: Have students keep work in portfolios or independent work folders that they monitor (see record keeping chart handout – kids can use it to monitor their work and it provides you with an easy way to see what they’re doing). Portfolios can also be examples of best work or of a progression of skills. If kids put writing samples in a portfolio every month then the teacher has a basis of assessment and can discuss with the student how his or her work has progressed over the months. This also helps teach students how to set their own goals. Clipboard: If you always carry a clipboard, kids get used to you writing on it. Carry goal tracking sheets on your clipboard so that you can keep track of what students are working on on a daily basis. You can also put blank index cards on your clipboard and take anecdotal notes throughout the day. Those note cards can then be placed in student files. Use of technology: Providing students with websites and other technology can allow them to work more independently. There are websites listed on the Resources handout that fall in this category. Start class with familiar tasks: this allows everyone to have a starting place (a warm-up question, for example) that can be completed while the teacher takes care of administrative tasks or moves students to groups. Task cards, tape recorder, or overhead for directions: give students ways to hear and review directions so that they do not need to interrupt instruction or a teacher’s work with a small group. Directions can be written on index cards, tape recorded, and/or posted on an overhead or chart paper in the room. System for student questions: Decide on steps that students should take before they ask the teacher a question. For example, first they use a set of pre-determined strategies (looking in their journal, skimming the textbook, looking online, etc.), next they ask a peer, finally they can ask the teacher. Then decide how students should ask the teacher questions if the teacher is working with a small group at the time (for example, they could write their question on an index card and place it by the teacher, who could write a response without interrupting much of the small group work.
  8. Teachers can’t possibly individualize for 30 kids, so they need to plan using “user friendly” strategies to address different readiness levels, interests, and student profiles. Tiered instruction allows the teacher to make slight adjustments within the same lesson or unit for different learners. A teacher will only tier when it makes sense for the kids and the concepts or skills being taught.
  9. With a little thought, almost any classroom activity can be tiered. Two or three tiers is usually best for implementation. However, a teacher who is experienced and comfortable with the strategy may have more tiers if it facilitates the instruction or better meets the needs of the students.
  10. This graphic represents a sequence for planning a tiered activity or assignment. (Walk through graphic) There is nothing sacred about three groups---the teacher may want to use two groups or as many as four or five. Assessment, diagnosis, and prescription are integral to the use of this strategy. The strategy itself is very visible and viable and usually makes sense to students and parents.
  11. Another method for developing tiered assignments or activities is to first develop an on-level task and then make slight adjustments up or down. Some tasks in each tier may be the same while others might be changed to match student readiness levels. Factors from the six-step framework should still be considered in this planning process.
  12. Dr. Carol Tomlinson from the University of Virginia has developed an instrument called “The Equalizer” that can be used by teachers to consider different factors that can be adjusted to provide challenge and success. This overhead lists some of the areas that teachers should consider when making adjustments for students in different groups.
  13. The equalizer works in the same way that you might adjust the volume on your stereo. The teacher uses the equalizer as a planning tool to think about the kinds of adjustments that might be made for struggling, on-level, and advanced learners. This is an attempt to match the task with readiness levels of the students. It is not necessary to adjust all nine equalizer buttons for each activity.