Doable Differentiation
PART ONE
Getting to Know You
In your group, work on the Group
Matrix in your handout.
Anchor Activity: Fill in what you
can on EITHER the Graphic
Organizer for Differentiating
Instruction OR the KWL chart on
the reverse side.
Robert Hutchins
The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society
“Perhaps the greatest idea that America
has given the world is education for all. The
world is entitled to know whether this idea
means that everybody can be educated or
simply that everyone must go to school.”
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Appointment Clock
Think of one personal comment
that comes to your mind when you
read the Hutchins quote.
Go around the room and share your
comment with others as you make
“appointments” to fill in your
appointment clock.
You may revise your comment as
you listen to others’ opinions.
Robert Hutchins
The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society
“Perhaps the greatest idea that America
has given the world is education for all. The
world is entitled to know whether this idea
means that everybody can be educated or
simply that everyone must go to school.”
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Differentiated Instruction:
What it is, What it’s not
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Activity One: Read, Pair, Share
• Read the given passage pp 5-10 and use
the graphic organizer provided to take
notes independently on what DI is and
what it’s not.
• Share your notes with your 3:00
appointment and discuss.
• Share your combined wisdom with the
whole class.
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When a teacher tries to teach
something to the entire class at the
same time, “chances are, one-third of
the kids already know it; one-third will
get it; and the remaining third won’t.
So two-thirds of the children
are wasting their time.”
- Lilian Katz
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Activity Two: Think, Pair, Share
Reflect on this quote by completing these
phrases:
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As a student, I was in the 1/3 who…
As a teacher, I was in the 1/3 who...
As a parent, my child is in the 1/3
who…
Discuss your responses with your 6:00
appointment
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When a teacher tries to teach
something to the entire class at the
same time, “chances are, one-third of
the kids already know it; one-third will
get it; and the remaining third won’t.
So two-thirds of the children
are wasting their time.”
- Lilian Katz
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What is Differentiated Instruction?
Traditional Classroom
Differentiated Classroom
1.
Assessment at the end of a unit
of study
1.
Assessment is ongoing,
diagnostics and influences
instruction
2.
Dominance of whole class
instruction
2.
Variety of instructional
strategies used within a
classroom
3.
Adapted textbooks are the
main instructional resource
3.
Multiple types of materials are
utilized as resources
4.
The teacher is the main
problem solver
4.
Students are actually engaged
in solving problems
5.
Quantitative focus to
assignments
5.
Qualitative focus to
assignments
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(Based on C Tomlinson, 2000)
Self-Assessment for
Differentiated Instruction
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Defining
Differentiated Instruction
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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
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Key Principles of Differentiation
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High quality curriculum
Ongoing assessment
Respectful tasks
Varied learning styles
Flexible grouping
Teacher/student collaboration
Student choice
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Activity Three: Jigsaw
• Read the assigned selection from pp 11-21 at
your table team.
• Go to your “table of experts” with others from
different table teams who have read the same
selection as you.
• Devise a way to teach the contents of your
selection to your original table team.
• Return to your table team and teach them your
content, using the method designed by your
“table of experts.”
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Differentiation is
responsive teaching
rather than
one-size-fits-all
teaching.
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Differentiated Instruction:
How?
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Differentiation of Instruction
Is a teacher’s response to learner’s needs
guided by general principles of differentiation
Respectful tasks
Flexible grouping
Ongoing assessment
Teachers Can Differentiate Through:
Content
Process
Product
According to Students’
Readiness
Interest
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Learning Profile
Activity Four: Hands-On
• Use pp 8-9 from your handout to match
the activity cards with the correct space
on the differentiated grid.
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Differentiated Instruction: Why?
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Why differentiation?
Differentiation is classroom practice
that looks eyeball to eyeball with the
reality that kids differ, and the most
effective teachers do whatever it
takes to hook the whole range of
kids on learning.
Tomlinson 2001
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Research Support for
Differentiation
• Research for differentiating by
readiness: Vygotsky (1978), Fisher
(1980)
• Research for differentiating by interest:
LeDoux (1996), Abrantes, Seabra, and
Lages (2008)
• Research for student choice: Renate
and Caine (1994), Glasser (1999)
• Research for using multiple learning
styles: Torrance and Ball (1978),
Edelman (1992), Restak (1994)
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Activity 4
•How do students learn?
•What do students need in order to
learn?
•What should students do in order to
learn?
Discuss with your 9:00 appointment
CHALK TALK to share your thoughts
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Coming Attractions:
• Brain research and how it supports
differentiation!
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