Differentiated Instruction, Assessment, and Learning

Differentiated Instruction or Personalized Education Plans

Differentiated instruction, and Differentiated assessment, and Differentiated learning?

Every student receives instruction based on individual interest,

learning preference, learning style, readiness level, ability, and or preferred mode of learning, wow. Wow is right, this may work for homeschoolers but may quickly diminish in its effectiveness in a classroom of 34 students! One teacher with 34 students and they want quality differentiated instruction, classroom management, plus amazing test results! Is this goal really possible? Differentiated Instruction sounds like a wonderful theory or could be an Orwellian promise designed to keep teachers bouncing around like pinballs doing senseless retorts, with all students suffering mediocrity. Teachers need real solutions, not more Pedagogical Theories adapted in some far off academic institution.

I have a very simple educational philosophy "Teach to the TOP" and bring everyone along for the adventure, no matter the learning differences or learning style, all students benefit from a rich demanding curriculum. Individual interest, learning preference, learning style, readiness level, ability, a preferred mode of learning, is useless if your students' can't or won't participate in the learning! Sean Taylor M.Ed 

MY GOLDEN RULEs:

1. Teach to the top
2. Differentiated formative assessments
3. Kagan cooperative learning 
4. Micro-lectures and Whole Brain Teaching
5. Keep the learning silly, novel, and absurd

RESOURCES FOR A Differentiated CLASSROOM.

[PDF]Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instructional ... - NYU Steinhardt
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[PDF]The Nuts and Bolts of Differentiation - WKU
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[PDF]25 Quick Formative Assessments - Great Schools Partnership
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[PDF]Differentiating Instruction with Technology in K–5 Classrooms - ISTE
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[PDF]Differentiating Instruction: Making It Happen in Classrooms
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[PDF]How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
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[PDF]Teaching Every Student: Five Key Elements - UC Davis Health
Special educators are the experts in differentiating instruction and creating ...

[DOC]Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL ... - CAST.org
The report concludes with a listing of Web resources for further information ... The variation seen in a differentiated classroom is most frequently in the manner in ...

[PDF]Key Principles of a Differentiated Classroom - Orting School District
Differentiation is a teaching concept in which the classroom teacher plans for the ... and resourcesmore advanced than those commonly found at grade level, ...

[PDF]Differentiated Instruction - EduGAINS
It is just one of several resources in a multi-faceted professional learning strategy. ... A defining characteristic of a differentiated classroom is flexibility. Students ...

[PDF]Differentiation in action! - PDST
The resource aims to contextualise differentiation and to suggest a number of strategies to supportdifferentiated teaching and learning in the classroom.

[PDF]Reaching the Needs of All Learners - North Carolina Public School
Any given classroom will contain a heterogeneous mix of students with ... of differentiating the curriculum to meet the needs of all students, ... Resources. 4.

[PDF]The Differentiated Classroom - McCracken County Schools
The differentiated classroom : responding to the needs of all learners / Carol Ann .... resources, and myself so that I am an effective catalyst for maximizing talent ...

[PDF]Tiered Assignments In a differentiated classroom, a teacher uses ...
In a differentiated classroom, a teacher uses varied levels of tasks to ensure that ... Tiering can be based on challenge level, complexity, resources, outcome ...

[PDF]assessments - Somerset Academy
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[PDF]Responding to the Needs of All Learners - ASCD
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[PDF]Websites and Apps That Support Differentiated Instruction - Heartland ..
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